Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Research Interests
Text mining in large digital libraries, Modeling literary concepts with machine learning, 18-19c British literature, History of 18-19c science, Sociology of cultural distinction
Education
Ph.D, Cornell University, 1997
Education/Academic qualification
English, Ph.D, Cornell University
Award Date: Jan 1 1997
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Distant Horizons: Digital Evidence and Literary Change
Underwood, T., Feb 2019, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 200 p.Research output: Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book
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Why Literary Periods Mattered: Historical Contrast and the Prestige of English Studies
Underwood, W. E., 2013, Palo Alto: Stanford University Press. 216 p.Research output: Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book
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The Work of the Sun: Literature, Science, and Political Economy, 1760-1860
Underwood, T., Oct 6 2005, New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 240 p.Research output: Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book
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Complexities of leveraging user-generated book reviews for scholarly research: transiency, power dynamics, and cultural dependency
Hu, Y., LeBlanc, Z. G., Diesner, J., Underwood, W. E., Layne-Worthey, G. & Downie, J. S., Jun 2024, In: International Journal on Digital Libraries. 25, 2, p. 317-340 24 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Disentangling semantic and prosodic features of English poetry
Shang, W. & Underwood, T., Feb 27 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. fqae008.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Datasets
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The Life Cycles of Genres
Underwood, T. (Creator), Harvard Dataverse, 2016
DOI: 10.7910/DVN/XKQOQM
Dataset
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Word Frequencies in English-Language Literature, 1700-1922 (0.2)
Underwood, T. (Creator), Capitanu, B. (Creator), Organisciak, P. (Creator), Bhattacharyya, S. (Creator), Auvil, L. S. (Creator), Fallaw, C. (Creator) & Downie, J. S. (Creator), HathiTrust, 2015
DOI: 10.13012/J8JW8BSJ
Dataset
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A Prototype Gutenberg-HathiTrust Sentence-level Parallel Corpus
Jiang, M. (Creator), Dubnicek, R. (Creator), Layne-Worthey, G. C. (Creator), Underwood, W. E. (Creator) & Downie, J. S. (Creator), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Jun 20 2022
DOI: 10.13012/B2IDB-1685085_V1
Dataset
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Replication data and code for "Can We Map Culture?"
Underwood, T. (Creator) & So, R. J. (Creator), Harvard Dataverse, Jun 17 2021
DOI: 10.7910/DVN/J89DNM
Dataset
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Replication Data for: The Transformation of Gender in English-Language Fiction
Underwood, T. (Creator), Bamman, D. (Creator) & Lee, S. (Creator), Harvard Dataverse, 2018
DOI: 10.7910/DVN/ZM2MAN
Dataset
Press/Media
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Should educators worry about ChatGPT?
4/4/23
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment / Interview
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Illinois professor uses big data to research history of gender in fiction
2/27/18
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
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Project will help researchers explore big data in HathiTrust digitized library
2/23/16
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
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Exhaustive computer research project shows shift in English language
5/15/13
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
Honors & Recognition
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Two Ways of Using Numbers in the Humanities: An Argument with Thomas Piketty
Underwood, W. E. (Speaker)
Sep 2014Activity: Talk types › Invited talk
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Beyond tools: The questions about interpretation that link computer science to the humanities
Underwood, W. E. (Speaker)
2014Activity: Talk types › Invited talk
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Cultural Analytics (Journal)
Underwood, T. (Editorial board member)
2016 → …Activity: Editorial work types › Editorial activity
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Eighteenth-Century Studies (Journal)
Underwood, T. (Editor)
2011 → 2013Activity: Editorial work types › Editorial activity