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Taboos and unknown unknowns: can we mine text data to determine what *isn't* said?


Thomas White

10/05/2024

Supervised by Crispin Cooper; Moderated by Matthew J W Morgan

A previous project of mine attempted to mine text corpuses (news articles, wikipedia) for what *wasn't* said

https://www.thewinnower.com/papers/3619-data-mining-for-the-taboo-searching-for-what-isn-t-there . Initial results were promising but more development is needed, which is where this proposal comes in. In particular I would suggest adding a topic model to the algorithm outlined in the link above.


Initial Plan (05/02/2024) [Zip Archive]

Final Report (10/05/2024) [Zip Archive]

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