David Smith Assistant Professor of Computer & Information Science davi.smith@neu.edu Expertise digital libraries, machine translation, natural language processing and computational linguistics with applications to information retrieval David Smith in the Press Why bill success in a lousy way to keep score in Congress On Tuesday, February 4, the Washington Post published an article in which retiring representative Robert Andrews (D-NJ) was asked to defend the fact that none of the bills he sponsored over 20 years had become law. A bad measure (bill success) that previously garnered little public attention now seems to be trickling into the mainstream […] Why bill success is a lousy way to keep score in Congress Joshua Tucker: The following is a guest post from John Wilkerson and Nick Stramp of the University of Washington’s Department of Political Science and David Smith of the College of Computer and Information Sciences at Northeastern University. ***** On Tuesday, February 4, the Washington Post published an article in which retiring representative Robert Andrews (D-NJ) was asked to defend the fact that none […] Here’s How Memes Went Viral — In the 1800s The project expects to launch by the end of the month. When it does, researchers and the public will be able to comb through widely reprinted texts identified by mining 41,829 issues of 132 newspapers from the Library of Congress. While this first stage focuses on texts from before the Civil War, the project eventually […] David Smith for Northeastern Global News Here’s how the scribblings of John Adams might help build a better search engine Here’s how the scribblings of John Adams might help build a better search engine David Smith, an assistant professor in the College of Computer and Information Science and a founding member of the NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks, received an $82,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to extract information about readers from scanned texts. How to get science research covered in the press How to get science research covered in the press Researchers found that that media coverage of science is often determined more by the subject matter than by its scientific importance. Professor mines for historical memes Professor mines for historical memes Ryan Cordell, an assistant professor of English and a digital humanities expert, is using a newly digitized corpora of historical texts, including newspapers, magazines, and novels, to identify the popular elements of 19th-century culture. The evolution of language, from Shakespeare to present day The evolution of language, from Shakespeare to present day Assistant professor David Smith is leveraging digital humanities techniques to analyze syntactic changes throughout history in an effort to understand how languages evolve.
Why bill success in a lousy way to keep score in Congress On Tuesday, February 4, the Washington Post published an article in which retiring representative Robert Andrews (D-NJ) was asked to defend the fact that none of the bills he sponsored over 20 years had become law. A bad measure (bill success) that previously garnered little public attention now seems to be trickling into the mainstream […]
Why bill success is a lousy way to keep score in Congress Joshua Tucker: The following is a guest post from John Wilkerson and Nick Stramp of the University of Washington’s Department of Political Science and David Smith of the College of Computer and Information Sciences at Northeastern University. ***** On Tuesday, February 4, the Washington Post published an article in which retiring representative Robert Andrews (D-NJ) was asked to defend the fact that none […]
Here’s How Memes Went Viral — In the 1800s The project expects to launch by the end of the month. When it does, researchers and the public will be able to comb through widely reprinted texts identified by mining 41,829 issues of 132 newspapers from the Library of Congress. While this first stage focuses on texts from before the Civil War, the project eventually […]