@conference {plaisant_exploring_2006,
	title = {Exploring Erotics in Emily Dickinson{\textquoteright}s Correspondence with Text Mining and Visual Interfaces},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries},
	series = {{JCDL} {\textquoteright}06},
	year = {2006},
	note = {00053},
	pages = {141{\textendash}150},
	publisher = {{ACM}},
	organization = {{ACM}},
	address = {New York, {NY}, {USA}},
	abstract = {This article examines how document repositories can be utilized for humanities research and critical interpretation. The article specifically focuses on the rapidly expanding field of text mining. A case study of 300 XML encoded letter written between Emily Dickinson and her sister-in-law Susan Huntingdon Dickinson was used by the authors to experiment with their methods and test their theories. The authors argue that in order for computational methods to significantly effect the humanities discipline the tools developed must be concerned with scholarly interpretation and be useable by non-experts. Using a multinomial na{\"\i}ve Bayes algorithm, the authors trained a computer program to "read" the Dickinson correspondence for erotic language and to then classify the letters based on the appearance (or not) of this language. The panel of literary scholars was particularly pleased by how accurately the algorithm classified the letters. Feedback was given for improving aesthetic qualities of the user interface but overall the tool proved both useful and useable. },
	keywords = {case studies, humanities, literary criticism, text mining, user interface, visualization},
	isbn = {1-59593-354-9},
	doi = {10.1145/1141753.1141781},
	url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1141753.1141781},
	author = {Plaisant, Catherine and Rose, James and Yu, Bei and Auvil, Loretta and Kirschenbaum, Matthew G. and Smith, Martha Nell and Clement, Tanya and Lord, Greg}
}