Question

This website is a common source for literary text mining corpora, since it stores around 50,000 books in plain text format. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this large online archive of public-domain books named for a German printer.
ANSWER: Project Gutenberg [prompt on Gutenberg]
[10m] A paper by Reagan et al. used sentiment analysis on a Project Gutenberg corpus to support this author’s rejected MA thesis, which proposed that all stories conform to eight basic emotional shapes like “Rags to Riches,” “Man in a Hole,” and “Cinderella.”
ANSWER: Kurt Vonnegut [or Kurt Vonnegut Jr.] (The University of Chicago rejected his thesis.)
[10h] Many digital humanities scholars follow a 1997 book by Franco Moretti that performs this task for 19th-century novels. This task is a central tool for a field of criticism pioneered by Robert Tally and Bertrand Westphal.
ANSWER: mapping literature [or mapping books; or literary cartography; or creating maps of books or equivalents; accept creating a literary atlas; accept literary geography; accept Geocriticism; accept Atlas of the European Novel]

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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3Total
Brown AChicago A0000
Duke AOhio State A100010
Florida ACornell A1001020
Harvard ACornell B100010
Illinois AYale B1010020
Imperial AColumbia B100010
Maryland AYale A100010
Minnesota BVanderbilt A100010
Penn AMcGill A100010
Purdue AMichigan A010010
Stanford AChicago B1010020
Texas AMinnesota A1001020
UC Berkeley AIndiana A1010020
WUSTL AGeorgia Tech A100010