Author: Michael Widner

Text-Mining the Web

by Michael Widner • March 21, 2017 • Comments Off

March 21, 2017

by Michael Widner

Recently, I worked with Cécile Alduy, Professor of French, and SUL’s Nicholas Taylor and Sarah Sussman to use SUL’s Web Archiving Service to generate a corpus of French political websites that we text-mine. The results informed Alduy’s latest book, Ce qu’ils disent vraiment: Les politiques pris aux mots.

Lacuna @ Dartmouth

by Michael Widner • March 11, 2016 • Comments Off

Lacuna, a digital reading, writing, and annotation platform I developed, is now in use as part of a MOOC being run at Dartmouth University. An author for their EdTech blog recently wrote up the experience. Here’s my favorite part of the post: