Agenda & topics for 2016/7 
* Proposal to invite - as a program for 2 days 'algolit seminar':
    - Marc Matter, history of algorithmic art & concrete poetry
    - Publishing House 0x0a, from Berlin  http://0x0a.li/en/page/2/
    - specialist on Generative Grammar

* Algorithmic Models for text analysis & connect to context where it is used & metaphors around it & visualisation
- neural networks, karpathy char-rnn (https://github.com/karpathy/char-rnn) or tensorflow (which is easier)
- Vladimir Propp & dada engine / Claude Levy Strauss on myths (structuralism) / generative grammar
- supervised ML - Uncertainty Detected
- word2vec
- Levenhstein Distance:  Word folding / expanding
- writing-interfaces: rule based / super vised / unsupervised - visualizing a machine learning process
- bootstrapping (unsupervised)
- Algorithmic agents / bots - Franco Moretti book on Distant Reading / harvesting botfamily / bottarium
- XMPP bots - Immaterial Labour Zine: ILZ on XMPP http://ilu.servus.at/ & the call for bots http://lurk.org/groups/hsc/messages/topic/5WW8CUSyl5fEdBwIfxF5Wu/
- WordNet - connecting to storytelling device 
generative grammar
- metaphor analysis through text analysis tools - Metaphor Lab's VU Amsterdam Metaphor Corpus http://www.vismet.org/metcor/search/
- use mailinglists archives as input for analysis

* making a collection of algoritmic litterary works on the algolit wiki
algorithmic agents can report back on the wiki

* references
Speech and Language Processing (3rd ed. draft), Dan Jurafsky and James H. Martin: https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/


Dates
3 November - Uncertainty Detected / supervised ML using scikit-learn, look into visualisation using matplotlib/js & context on Supervised ML
___Uncertainty Detected: supervised ML software to detect uncertainty in scientific papers & visualisations (Gijs & An)  
25 November - intro on Neural Networks (and built up a neural-net dedicated computer / XMPP bots)
16 December - neural network
20 January - neural network
10 February
17 March
21 April
19 May
23 June

note for next meeting: 
* when following the link to subscribe to the mailinglist, it gives a "does not exist" message: https://listes.domainepublic.net/listinfo/algolit
*would it be possible to have logins to the wiki for us?