Distant Reader - classification-K-gutenberg

Introduction

This is a Distant Reader "study carrel", a set of structured data intended to help the student, researcher, or scholar use & understand a corpus.

This study carrel was created on 2021-05-29 by Eric Morgan <emorgan@nd.edu>. The carrel was created using the Distant Reader gutenberg process, and the input was the result of a query applied to a local mirror of Project Gutenberg -- classification:"K". Then, for future reference, the results were saved to a Zip file complete with rudimentary bibliographics. The name of the file is input-file.zip. The Zip file was then unpacked and the contents saved to a cache as well as a directory of plain text files. All of the analysis -- "reading" -- has been done against these plain text files. For example, a short narrative report has been created. This Web page is a more verbose version of that report.

All study carrels are self-contained -- no Internet connection is necessary to use them. Download this carrel for offline reading. The carrel is made up of many subdirectories and data files. The manifest describes each one in greater detail.

Size

There are 21 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 1,028,397 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 51,419 words long. If you dig deeper, then you might want to save yourself some time by reading a shorter item. On the other hand, if your desire is for more detail, then you might consider reading a longer item. The following charts illustrate the overall size of the carrel.

Readability

On a scale from 0 to 100, where 0 is very difficult and 100 is very easy, the documents have an average readability score of 66. Consequently, if you want to read something more simplistic, then consider a document with a higher score. If you want something more specialized, then consider something with a lower score. The following charts illustrate the overall readability of the carrel.

Word Frequencies

By merely counting & tabulating the frequency of individual words or phrases, you can begin to get an understanding of the carrel's "aboutness". Excluding "stop words", some of the more frequent words include:

law, one, may, copyright, will, shall, act, right, case, property, must, first, court, time, marriage, rights, made, without, man, work, legal, new, common, even, book, also, mr, see, person, every, two, whether, part, public, years, make, use, contract, cases, people, laws, roman, justice, another, action, might, state, order, power, much

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are The Common Law, An Essay on the Trial by Jury, and Ancient Law: Its Connection to the History of Early Society.

The most frequent two-word phrases (bigrams) include:

common law, intellectual property, united states, roman law, magna carta, fair use, property rights, copyright act, public domain, new york, supreme court, natural law, united kingdom, international copyright, british dominions, performing right, first published, dramatic piece, musical composition, either party, first publication, new jersey, foreign country, copyright acts, chief justice, copyright law, two years, exclusive right, absolute divorce, civil law, twelve tables, first amendment, english law, good faith, one year, open source, ancient law, criminal law, three years, parental consent, roman jurisprudence, berne convention, revised statutes, performing rights, five years, musical compositions, first produced, law review, ray charles, act shall

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind An Essay on the Trial by Jury, and A Treatise Upon the Law of Copyright in the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the Crown, and in the United States of America Containing a Full Appendix of All Acts of Parliament International Conventions, Orders in Council, Treasury Minute and Acts of Congress Now in Force..

While often deemed superficial or sophomoric, rudimentary frequencies and their associated "word clouds" can be quite insightful:

Keywords

Sets of keywords -- statistically significant words -- can be enumerated by comparing the relative frequency of words with the number of times the words appear in an entire corpus. Some of the most statistically significant keywords in the carrel include:

law, court, mr., state, man, english, act, new, justice, judge, jersey, henry, england, supreme, roman, property, parliament, john, york, year, work, william, united, tables, states, st., sir, right, review, person, order, natural, lord, king, individual, iii, history, greek, great, government, god, edward, copyright, congress, commons, church, case, book, author, y.b.

And now word clouds really begin to shine:

Topic Modeling

Topic modeling is another popular approach to connoting the aboutness of a corpus. If the study carrel could be summed up in a single word, then that word might be law, and The Copy/South Dossier Issues in the economics, politics, and ideology of copyright in the global South is most about that word.

If the study carrel could be summed up in three words ("topics") then those words and their significantly associated titles include:

If the study carrel could be summed up in five topics, and each topic were each denoted with three words, then those topics and their most significantly associated files would be:

copyright, act, shall - A Treatise Upon the Law of Copyright in the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the Crown, and in the United States of America Containing a Full Appendix of All Acts of Parliament International Conventions, Orders in Council, Treasury Minute and Acts of Congress Now in Force.
marriage, law, king - An Essay on the Trial by Jury
law, roman, legal - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law
mr, court, law - The New Jersey Law Journal, Volume XLV, No. 2, February, 1922
law, case, man - The Common Law

Moreover, the totality of the study carrel's aboutness, can be visualized with the following pie chart:

Noun & Verbs

Through an analysis of your study carrel's parts-of-speech, you are able to answer question beyonds aboutness. For example, a list of the most frequent nouns helps you answer what questions; "What is discussed in this collection?":

law, copyright, case, property, right, man, time, rights, marriage, work, person, years, part, people, cases, book, laws, men, action, author, court, order, power, contract, way, form, defendant, fact, p., government, king, question, use, jury, justice, parties, place, wife, theory, party, publication, nature, courts, plaintiff, persons, system, husband, land, matter, day

An enumeration of the verbs helps you learn what actions take place in a text or what the things in the text do. Very frequently, the most common lemmatized verbs are "be", "have", and "do"; the more interesting verbs usually occur further down the list of frequencies:

is, be, was, have, are, were, been, has, had, said, made, do, see, make, does, being, did, held, given, published, taken, called, take, give, having, done, say, found, put, says, according, think, required, used, find, seems, entitled, know, brought, come, making, protected, go, granted, thought, become, took, known, bound, came

Proper Nouns

An extraction of proper nouns helps you determine the names of people and places in your study carrel.

_, act, c., mr., law, ., court, l., r., rep., j., united, lord, b., d., england, s., copyright, fed, states, new, n., sec, ch, pl, vict, state, magna, i., congress, carta, ed, mrs., justice, john, book, judge, english, iv, /2/, king, t., de, william, parliament, henry, charles, international, acts, edward

An analysis of personal pronouns enables you to answer at least two questions: 1) "What, if any, is the overall gender of my study carrel?", and 2) "To what degree are the texts in my study carrel self-centered versus inclusive?"

it, his, he, they, their, i, we, them, its, him, her, our, you, she, your, us, himself, my, itself, me, themselves, one, herself, ourselves, myself, mine, ''em, yourself, theirs, ours, yours, ye, oneself, meself, em, ''s, impediments.--the, thy, thee, yourselves, yerself, well-, tollit, themselves,--they, survive,--the, rather--, parents,--the, ourself, often?--what, oats_--they

Below are words cloud of your study carrel's proper & personal pronouns.

Adjectives & Verbs

Learning about a corpus's adjectives and adverbs helps you answer how questions: "How are things described and how are things done?" An analysis of adjectives and adverbs also points to a corpus's overall sentiment. "In general, is my study carrel positive or negative?"

such, other, same, legal, own, common, first, more, new, roman, many, public, certain, great, general, natural, good, true, necessary, different, free, civil, old, intellectual, little, much, particular, original, ancient, present, whole, social, modern, last, sufficient, least, criminal, private, judicial, human, only, fair, mere, important, foreign, few, most, special, dramatic, full

not, so, only, more, even, also, as, then, very, up, now, out, however, most, well, still, thus, first, therefore, far, just, here, never, down, always, again, much, perhaps, rather, all, too, merely, probably, otherwise, no, yet, there, ever, long, at, together, thereof, indeed, often, simply, on, generally, sometimes, already, almost

Next steps

There is much more to a study carrel than the things outlined above. Use this page's menubar to navigate and explore in more detail. There you will find additional features & functions including: ngrams, parts-of-speech, grammars, named entities, topic modeling, a simple search interface, etc.

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