[nfais-l] Wolfram Alpha and Shakespeare

[jilloneill at nfais.org]

Those attending the NFAIS Annual Conference this year heard from Tali Beynon of Wolfram Alpha about some of the work being done there. This morning, we learn that the search tool has added the full text of Shakespeare's plays to their content so that it is possible to view some interesting data about the Bard's corpus. Click through here ([http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=A+Midsummer+Night] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=A+Midsummer+Night's+Dream) to view a sample analysis of Midsummer Night's Dream.
 
Wolfram Alpha's blog has additional details on this:  [http://blog.wolframalpha.com/2012/04/10/to-compute-or-not-to-compute-wolframalpha-analyzes-shakespeares-plays/] http://blog.wolframalpha.com/2012/04/10/to-compute-or-not-to-compute-wolframalpha-analyzes-shakespeares-plays/
 
Jill O'Neill
Director, Planning & Communication
NFAIS
Email: jilloneill at nfais.org
Voice: 215/893-1561
Web: [http://www.nfais.org] http://www.nfais.org
 
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