Over the past year, I have been working on a textual analysis project exploring Japanese understandings of Judaism, Israel, and Zionism during the Meiji (1868-1912) and Taishō periods (1912-1926) as a part of a fellowship at Brandeis University’s Schusterman Center for Israel Studies, Institute for Advanced Israel Studies. In fact, I am writing this article whilst at Brandeis attending the Institute’s Digital Humanities in Israel Studies conference and am reworking some of the materials that I presented there. As part of the project, I have been experimented with a few textual analysis methods including the use of Voyant Tools. We have published on Voyant Tools in The Digital Orientalist before including its use for Chinese and Japanese, however, here I want to write about my experiences and difficulties using a much larger corpus particularly as they relate to segmentation.
Editors’ Choice: On Voyant Tools, Stopword Lists, and Japanese Textual Analysis and Visualisation
