Mark Olsen

University of Chicago, ARTFL Project, Department Member

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Queens College of the City University of New York

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Biola University

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University of Santiago de Compostela

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Università degli Studi "La Sapienza" di Roma

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University of Oxford

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Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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TXTCOL4: String data collection program

Computers and the Social Sciences, 1983

not usually faced by scholars in other fields. The data available to historians is frequently sca... more not usually faced by scholars in other fields. The data available to historians is frequently scattered in numerous locations, available, only in noncirculating formats like micro-film or original documents and difficult to work with. This enormously complicates the problems of data entry and frequently renders use of computers prohibitively expensive in time and money. Ladurie’s dictum applies more rekvantly to the development of data collection programs that reduce the problems of entering historical data. These programs must be small

Review of The digital word: text-based computing in the humanities by George P. Landow and Paul Delany. The MIT Press 1993

Computational Linguistics, 1994

Theatre, Opera, and Audiences in Revolutionary Paris: Analysis and Repertory

... Le Theatre pendant la Revolution franfaise: Instrument et miroir du politique&amp;amp;amp... more ... Le Theatre pendant la Revolution franfaise: Instrument et miroir du politique&amp;amp;amp;amp;quot; (1988) and &amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;L&amp;amp;amp;amp;#x27;Integration de nouvelles valeurs par le theatre,&amp;amp;amp;amp;quot; the latter ... and historian of France, and the assistant director of ARTFL (American Research on the Treasury of the French Language) at ...

Designing Usable Electronic Text (Book Review)

Digging into ECCO: Identifying Commonplaces and other Forms of Text Reuse at Scale

1. Background Commonplaces are a particular instance of historical text reuse (Dacome, 2004; Alla... more 1. Background Commonplaces are a particular instance of historical text reuse (Dacome, 2004; Allan 2010; Blair, 2011). This paper describes our efforts at identifying commonplaces in the Gale-Cengage Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) database. Given the size of this collection, as well as the state of the data in terms of its OCR output, identifying shared passages that exhibit the textual characteristics of commonplaces – e.g., are relatively short, repeated, and rhetorically significant – is a non-trivial computational task. In our previous work on text reuse, we came across numerous examples of textual borrowings and shared passages that we considered possible commonplaces (Allen et al., 2010; Horton et al., 2010; Roe, 2012). We expanded this work into a Digging into Data Round 3 project using similar methods to explore the more than 200,000 works contained in ECCO, a dataset that represents most of the printed literary and scientific output in Britain from 1700 to 1799. Previously we developed a sequence alignment algorithm for the identification of large-scale text reuse. This algorithm, called PhiloLine, generates a list of similar passages (based on a set of flexible matching parameters) shared between any two texts. This simple approach allows us to find borrowings and other instances of text reuse, from quotations to uncited passages and paraphrases, over large heterogeneous corpora (Edelstein et al., 2013). Historical text reuse detection is a burgeoning field within the digital humanities, whether focussed on literary allusion (Coffee et al., 2012; Coffee et al., 2014), paraphrase (Büchler et al., 2011), influence (Büchler et al., 2014), or networks of reprinting (Smith et al., 2015). While all these projects address text reuse in slightly different ways, the flexibility and scalability offered by PhiloLine, coupled with our familiarity with the system, offered significant advantages over other approaches. We thus aimed to use PhiloLine to compare the ECCO corpus to itself, compile a list of the most frequent shared passages, and from there evaluate these passages in order to build a database of potential commonplaces. 2. Eliminating duplicates The scope and scale of the ECCO dataset represented a major hurdle both in terms of computational expense and evaluation of the matching algorithm. Faced with more than 32 million pages of text, any manipulation of the data takes on significant proportions. To put this in perspective, comparing ECCO&#39;s 200,000 documents to each other 1 2

Words, Patterns and Documents: Experiments in Machine Learning and Text Analysis

Software reviews

Computers and The Humanities, 1987

Gender, race, and nationality in black drama, 1950-2006: Mining differences in language use in authors and their characters

Digital Humanities …, 2009

The French Revolution of the Library

Http Dx Doi Org 10 1300 J269v01n01_03, Oct 23, 2008

The French Revolution of the Library

Primary Sources & Original Works, 1992

Datcol 4: Interactive data collector for historians

Computers and the Humanities, 1985

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La circulation de la bibliothèque de l'Institut canadien de Montréal, 1865-1875

Histoire Sociale Social History, 1986

Harvey et Mark V. Olsen L'Institut canadien de Montréal occupe une place importante dans/' histor... more Harvey et Mark V. Olsen L'Institut canadien de Montréal occupe une place importante dans/' historiographie québécoise. Ce· pendant les historiens se sont surtout penchés sur le rôle central de cette association et de sa bibliothèque, dan\ la querelle qui opposa libéraux et ultramontains montréalais. La présente étude veut montrer, à partir de/' analyse des« Registres des livres empruntés » de la bibliothèque de/' Institut, que celle-ci a aussi joué un rôle culturel très différent mais non négligeable. C'est ainsi que les chiffres de circulation de livres révèlent que les lecteur. \ de la bibliothèque y ont d'abord puisé une littérature romanesque, largement proscrite par le clergé. Mais i/_1 a plus : ces emprunteurs ont de loin préféré le roman aux autres genres. et ils ont fair preuve d'une indifférence marquée face aux objectifs pédagogiques des directeurs de /'Institut d'une part. et face aux condamnations de l'évêque de Montréal d'autre part. L'utilisation pratique de la bibliothèque par les emprunteurs tend donc à montrer que les historiens ont surestimé /'influence idéologique de /'Institut, tout en négligeant sa vocation culturelle. The Institut canadien de Montréal occupies an important place in Quebec hisroriography. Historians. however, have been concerned main/y_ with this association' s, and ils library' s. role in the conjfict opposing Montrealliberals and u/tramontanes. This study, based on an analysis of the library' s Registre des livres empruntés, shows thar the Institut' s library a/so played a significant, if different , cultural role. Circulation figures indicate thar readers drew on the library primarily as a source of a romantic literature large/y proscribed by the c/ergy. Moreover, the se borrowers far preferred the novel to al/ other types of lirerature. In doing so they demonstrated a singu/ar indifference toward the pedagogical objectives of the Institut' s direct ors on the one ha1ul. as weil as toward the condemnation of the bishop of Montreal on the other. This practica/ use of the library b_ ,. the bo"owers suggests thar historions have perhaps overemphasized the ideo/ogica/ influence of the Institut wh ile neglecting its cultural vocation.

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Vive la Différence! Text Mining Gender Difference in French Literature

Gender representation and histoire des mentalités : Language and Power in the Trésor de la langue française

Histoire & Mesure, 1991

... 28. Roger MURRAY, «Poetry and Collocation», Style, 14-3, 1980, p. 217. ... One can look at th... more

The Notion of the Textbase: Design and Use of Textbases in the Humanities

Literary Studies in the Digital Age, 2013

Contested Methods: Daniel T. Rodgers's Contested Truths

Journal of the History of Ideas, 1988

A Quantitative Study of Book Circulation: The Library of the Institut-Canadien de Montréal

Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, 1985

French Reolutionary Forms in French‐Canadian Political Language, 1805–35

Canadian Historical Review, 1987

Something Borrowed: Sequence Alignment and the Identification of Similar Passages in Large Text Collections

Digital Studies/Le champ numérique

The following article describes a simple technique to identify lexically-similar passages in larg... more The following article describes a simple technique to identify lexically-similar passages in large collections of text using sequence alignment algorithms. Primarily used in the field of bioinformatics to identify similar segments of DNA in genome research, sequence alignment has also been employed in many other domains, from plagiarism detection to image processing. While we have applied this approach to a wide variety of diverse text collections, we will focus our discussion here on the identification of similar passages in the famous 18th-century Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot and Jean d'Alembert. Reference works, such as encyclopedias and dictionaries, are generally expected to "reuse" or "borrow" passages from many sources and Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie was no exception. Drawn from an immense variety of source material, both French and non-French, many, if not most, of the borrowings that occur in the Encyclopédie are not sufficiently identified (according to our standards of modern citation), or are only partially acknowledged in passing. The systematic identification of recycled passages can thus offer us a clear indication of the sources the philosophes were exploiting as well as the extent to which the intertextual relations that accompanied its composition and subsequent reception can be explored. In the end, we hope this approach to "Encyclopedic intertextuality" using sequence alignment can broaden the discussion concerning the relationship of Enlightenment thought to previous intellectual traditions as well as its reuse in the centuries that followed.

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Enlightened Nationalism in the Early Revolution: The nation in the Language of the Société de 1789

Canadian Journal of History

TXTCOL4: String data collection program

Computers and the Social Sciences, 1983

Review of The digital word: text-based computing in the humanities by George P. Landow and Paul Delany. The MIT Press 1993

Computational Linguistics, 1994

Theatre, Opera, and Audiences in Revolutionary Paris: Analysis and Repertory

Designing Usable Electronic Text (Book Review)

Digging into ECCO: Identifying Commonplaces and other Forms of Text Reuse at Scale

Words, Patterns and Documents: Experiments in Machine Learning and Text Analysis

Software reviews

Computers and The Humanities, 1987

Gender, race, and nationality in black drama, 1950-2006: Mining differences in language use in authors and their characters

Digital Humanities …, 2009

The French Revolution of the Library

Http Dx Doi Org 10 1300 J269v01n01_03, Oct 23, 2008

The French Revolution of the Library

Primary Sources & Original Works, 1992

Datcol 4: Interactive data collector for historians

Computers and the Humanities, 1985

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La circulation de la bibliothèque de l'Institut canadien de Montréal, 1865-1875

Histoire Sociale Social History, 1986

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Vive la Différence! Text Mining Gender Difference in French Literature

Gender representation and histoire des mentalités : Language and Power in the Trésor de la langue française

Histoire & Mesure, 1991

... 28. Roger MURRAY, «Poetry and Collocation», Style, 14-3, 1980, p. 217. ... One can look at th... more

The Notion of the Textbase: Design and Use of Textbases in the Humanities

Literary Studies in the Digital Age, 2013

Contested Methods: Daniel T. Rodgers's Contested Truths

Journal of the History of Ideas, 1988

A Quantitative Study of Book Circulation: The Library of the Institut-Canadien de Montréal

Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, 1985

French Reolutionary Forms in French‐Canadian Political Language, 1805–35

Canadian Historical Review, 1987

Something Borrowed: Sequence Alignment and the Identification of Similar Passages in Large Text Collections

Digital Studies/Le champ numérique

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Enlightened Nationalism in the Early Revolution: The nation in the Language of the Société de 1789

Canadian Journal of History

« La circulation de la bibliothèque de l'Institut canadien de Montréal, 1865-1875 »,

by Louis-Georges Harvey and Mark Olsen

Histoire sociale/Social History, 1986

L'Institut canadien de Montréal occupe une place importante dans l' historiographie québécoise. C... more L'Institut canadien de Montréal occupe une place importante dans l' historiographie québécoise. Cependant les historiens se sont surtout penchés sur le rôle central de cette association et de sa bibliothèque dans la querelle qui opposa libéraux et ultramontains montréalais. La présente étude veut montrer, à partir de l'analyse des« Registres des livres empruntés » de la bibliothèque de' Institut, que celle-ci a aussi joué un rôle culturel très différent, mais non négligeable. C'est ainsi que les chiffres de circulation de livres révèlent que les lecteurs
de la bibliothèque y ont d'abord puisé une littérature romanesque, largement proscrite par le clergé. Mais il y
a plus : ces emprunteurs ont de loin préféré le roman aux autres genres, et ils ont fait preuve d'une indifférence
marquée face aux objectifs pédagogiques des directeurs de l'Institut d'une part, et face aux condamnations de
l'évêque de Montréal d'autre part. L'utilisation pratique de la bibliothèque par les emprunteurs tend donc à
montrer que les historiens ont surestimé l'influence idéologique de l'Institut, tout en négligeant sa vocation
culturelle.

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Contested Methods: Daniel T. Rodgers's Contested Truths

by Louis-Georges Harvey and Mark Olsen

Journal of the History of Ideas, 1988

"Reading in Revolutionary Times: Book Borrowing from the Harvard College Library, 1773-1782 "

by Louis-Georges Harvey and Mark Olsen

Harvard Library Bulletin (New Series), 1993

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