Ted Underwood: Machine Learning and the Literary Imagination

In episode 71 of The Gradient Podcast, Daniel Bashir speaks to Ted Underwood.

Ted is a professor in the School of Information Sciences with an appointment in the Department of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Trained in English literary history, he turned his research focus to applying machine learning to large digital collections. His work explores literary patterns that become visible across long timelines when we consider many works at once—often, his work involves correcting …

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