A Note About the Sample Files
Explore the origins and literary significance of the sample files used throughout this NLP course. Understand how public domain novels and texts, like Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and works by Nathaniel Hawthorne, serve as valuable resources for text analysis. This knowledge helps contextualize the datasets used for practical exercises in text mining and natural language processing with R.
This course uses several novels and writing samples in the public domain. It is essential to acknowledge the work and genius of these authors.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Mary Shelley (1797–1851) was an English novelist who is best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein. She was born in 1797 and came from a family of writers and intellectuals. Shelley’s life was marked by tragedy, including the death of her mother shortly after her birth and the loss of several children throughout her life.
Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus
Frankenstein; Or, The Modern ...