{"id":213,"date":"2004-02-17T18:02:57","date_gmt":"2004-02-17T22:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=213"},"modified":"2004-02-17T18:02:57","modified_gmt":"2004-02-17T22:02:57","slug":"what-the-mla-is-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=213","title":{"rendered":"What the MLA is about"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can we misuse computer assisted text analysis to say what a document is about. Of course!<\/p>\n<p>I sent the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mla.org\">MLA<\/a> about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mla.org\/about\">page<\/a> through the HTML List Words <a href=\"http:\/\/strange.mcmaster.ca\/~taporware\">TAPoRware<\/a> tool. This gave me a frequency sorted list of words which I have used to come up with this synopsis:<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;PMLA interests more journals (than) other humanities articles&#8221; and proceedings. The MLA runs &#8220;groups (of) international profession activities (and) bulletins&#8221;. (This helps graduate students learn to be pros at fessing.) Due to &#8220;divisions&#8221; they have two &#8220;discussion programs&#8221;, but healing is an ongoing process for the &#8220;membership&#8221;. Their &#8220;membership executive (has lots of) meetings&#8221; (see below about ruling the members) and they have &#8220;modern committees&#8221;. (Postmodern committees are coming.) There is a &#8220;bibliography (of) annual literature (around) scholarly teaching convention(s)&#8221;. This also helps us profess in a conventional fashion. In short, the &#8220;MLA (rules) over language association members&#8221;. Which is as it should be.<\/p>\n<p>See below for the list of words that prove this true.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nHere is the list of words with a frequency of more than 1. I have removed function words like Of, That, and The.<br \/>\nPmla\t\t&#8212;&#8212;\t2<br \/>\nInterests\t&#8212;&#8212;\t2<br \/>\nMore\t\t&#8212;&#8212;\t2<br \/>\nJournals\t\t&#8212;&#8212;\t2<br \/>\nOther\t\t&#8212;&#8212;\t2<br \/>\nHumanities\t&#8212;&#8212;\t2<br \/>\nArticles\t\t&#8212;&#8212;\t2<br \/>\nGroups\t\t&#8212;&#8212;\t2<br \/>\nInternational\t&#8212;&#8212;\t2<br \/>\nProfession\t&#8212;&#8212;\t2<br \/>\nActivities\t&#8212;&#8212;\t2<br \/>\nBulletin\t\t&#8212;&#8212;\t2<br \/>\nDivisions\t&#8212;&#8212;\t2<br \/>\nDiscussion\t&#8212;&#8212;\t2<br \/>\nPrograms\t&#8212;&#8212;\t2<br \/>\nMembership\t&#8212;&#8212;\t2<br \/>\nExecutive\t&#8212;&#8212;\t2<br \/>\nMeetings\t&#8212;&#8212;\t2<br \/>\nModern\t\t&#8212;&#8212;\t3<br \/>\nCommittees\t&#8212;&#8212;\t3<br \/>\nBibliography\t&#8212;&#8212;\t3<br \/>\nAnnual\t\t&#8212;&#8212;\t3<br \/>\nLiterature\t&#8212;&#8212;\t3<br \/>\nScholarly\t&#8212;&#8212;\t4<br \/>\nTeaching\t&#8212;&#8212;\t4<br \/>\nConvention\t&#8212;&#8212;\t4<br \/>\nMla\t\t&#8212;&#8212;\t5<br \/>\nOver\t\t&#8212;&#8212;\t5<br \/>\nLanguage\t&#8212;&#8212;\t7<br \/>\nAssociation\t&#8212;&#8212;\t7<br \/>\nMembers\t&#8212;&#8212;\t11<\/p>\n<p>All proven by the computer! So, what is wrong with this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can we misuse computer assisted text analysis to say what a document is about. Of course! I sent the MLA about page through the HTML List Words TAPoRware tool. This gave me a frequency sorted list of words which I have used to come up with this synopsis: The &#8220;PMLA interests more journals (than) other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=213\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What the MLA is about<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}