README.md

DHB Danish Canon Project 📚

This repository contains data (embeddings), plots and results for our project on the Danish canon of the Modern Breakthrough.

Useful directions 📌

Some useful directions:

• the main folder contains the notebooks used for the analysis, ML_experiment.py is the main notebook for analysis, descriptive.py is used to generate descriptive stats and plots.
• figures/ contains the figures generated
• results/ contains the results of the ML
• data/ contains saved embeddings (.json) used for the analysis

Data & paper 📝

The dataset used is available at huggingface

Please cite our previous paper if you use the code or the embeddings:

@inproceedings{feldkamp-etal-2024-canonical,
    title = "Canonical Status and Literary Influence: A Comparative Study of {D}anish Novels from the Modern Breakthrough (1870{--}1900)",
    author = "Feldkamp, Pascale  and
      Lassche, Alie  and
      Kostkan, Jan  and
      Kardos, M{\'a}rton  and
      Enevoldsen, Kenneth  and
      Baunvig, Katrine  and
      Nielbo, Kristoffer",
    editor = {H{\"a}m{\"a}l{\"a}inen, Mika  and
      {\"O}hman, Emily  and
      Miyagawa, So  and
      Alnajjar, Khalid  and
      Bizzoni, Yuri},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities",
    month = nov,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Miami, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.nlp4dh-1.14",
    pages = "140--155"
}