Tropes! Cliches! Made-Up Slang! It’s the Data-Sitters Club!
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A computational corpus of Baby‑Sitters Club books gets tokenized, aligned, and compared across ~20 languages to make concrete claims: diff-match-patch reveals small modernizing edits (thong → flip‑flop); sentence alignment with BLEU align plus a SpaCy NER trained on foods surfaces creative translations (SpaghettiOs → osso buco, Gatorade footnote); Voyant concordances and cosine‑similarity heat maps show chapter‑two repetition and that ghostwriters recycle phrasing; fuzzy six‑gram matching quantifies unexpectedly sparse use of invented slang.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:50What is Digital Humanities
- 3:06The Books
- 3:24Text Changes
- 4:28Translations
- 5:43Food
- 6:59voyance
- 8:42Conclusion
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