Ateneo - UPO

texts are materials that can be processed: for this to happen, it is necessary to manage texts in their various formats and to choose the appropriate apps

will be provided by the teacher

- objectives - basic level; knowledge and understanding: to know how to find texts and how to use a text analysis programme
- objectives - advanced level; knowledge and understanding: to know how to find texts and which text analyses to design in relation to the type and/or characteristics of the text
- objectives - communication skills: to present acquired knowledge clearly
- objectives - study skills: link the use of text analysis methods to one's own study needs

none

lecture + practical activity

students must have a notebook or desktop available to work on during lessons and homework;
each student should come to the course having chosen an out-of-rights literary work (= whose author/author has been dead for more than 70 years)

in order to help students with disabilities, BES and DSA the outline teaching materials are provided in textual PDF, not image PDF; and the exam can be taken in the specific modalities provided by the Disability Office for the various recognised situations. in addition, the lessons will be available in synchronous (streaming) and asynchronous (recording deposited in the DIR space of the course) mode

ealisation and presentation of a written textual analysis work on a literary text of your choice
the minimum level required is to show that you have learned what the quantitative indicators of text analysis mean
the level of excellence is to construct an analytical-interpretative perspective based on quantitative indicators

characters, glyphs, encodings; file formats; conversion between formats; the TXT format
sources of textual data
what we study how we study texts using programmes - stylometry ?
available programmes: from Monoconc to AntConc and Voyant
what we ask of the programmes and how we evaluate what the programmes show us
how AI systems fit into all this

students are expected to
basic level
are able to perform simple textual analysis tasks on a text of their choice
advanced level
are able to perform complex textual analysis on a text of their choice