We discussed MK's experiences with MALLET. It works with our English texts, but the results we get while using 10-word topics don't really make sense.
Still preparing Arabic text for analysis
Word Cloud modelling doesn’t tell us as much but still worked okay with English texts. Arabic text analysis did not reveal as much as the same word would be counted as separate due to being written with different diacritics; we'd need to give the software a different vocabulary so as to count them as one word or find a diacritic-free version of our Arabic text.
Discussed our ideas for the Reading view of our webpage and how we could achieve it
Table with one column per surah and one for the ayah (verse) number. Each row would contain an ayah.
How to highlight our rhetorical devices and possibly toggle them so the user could decide which ones to look at. Using a floating box that doubles as key for rhetorical devices.
Toggle surah options so that only one surah is available for viewing at a time.
Discussed XSLT to create our Reading view, looked at Austin's XSLT-produced HTML for one of the surah's he marked down previously.
Discussed which pages to place our sections that MK drafted text for (self-intro, research questions, etc)
Discussed a little about CSS and use of SSI (we ran out of time before we finished this, tabled til next week)
Next Week
We shall continue to make progress on the following:
Aisha: add placeholders to XHTML files + update files with texts and links for SSI to work, work on XSLT
Discussions
Next Week
We shall continue to make progress on the following: