Getting Started with MALLET and Topic Modeling
If you don’t remember MALLET, take a look at: MALLET: MAchine Learning for LanguagE Toolkit Topic Map Competition (TMC) Contender?
Shawn is very interested in applying topic modeling to a variety of historical texts.
His blog, Electric Archaeology: Digital Media for Learning and Research looks very interesting. Covers: “Agent based modeling, games, virtual worlds, and online education for archaeology and history.”
This is the sort of person who might be interested in topic maps and related technologies.
As far as I know, there is still a real lack of example driven texts that would introduce most humanists to modern software.