dsidibay, Dusu Sidibay

Part 1

For this first graph, I wanted to see how often the seven continents are mentioned in English text. I employed the case-sensitive tool to ensure that they are using these words in a continential sense. I found that Europe is mentioned far more frequently in English, American English, and British English text than any other continent, which I found very surprising.

For this second graph, I wanted to see how often love, and some of its synonyms are referred to in English fiction. The advance search tool I used was Ngram compositions to combine different Ngrams together. That way, I was able to see how often love, desire, passion, and lust were mentioned together and how often each word was mentioned. I found, as I assumed, that love was must significantly more than its counterparts in English fiction text.

Part 2

I pick the book "Souls of Black Folk" by W.E.B. DuBois for the Voyant analysis. One of the tools that I found most useful was the Summary tool. This tool displays the total word and unique word count of the corpus. It also displays the vocabulary density, the average word per sentence count, and the top 5 most frequent words in the text. Another tool that was fairly insightful was the TermBerry tool. This tool presents a number of terms. When a term is hovered over, other words that co-occur with it light up as well. With the TermBerry tool you see the other words from the text that are associated with the selected word. My favorite tool to use was the Veliza tool. It was somewhat like a Siri tool, in that you can interact and communicate with Veliza. This tool also had a function that would select random lines from the uploaded text and Veliza would react to the text. It was fun to play around with it.

Part 3

Words that can be positive or negative:

• crazy
• frenzy

Words with incorrect weighting:

• haunting
• frenzy

Both agree and correct:

• "One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections.The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he looked." ~ Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
• "It was only when he had reached the door that he realised what it actually was that had drawn him over to it; it was the smell of something to eat. By the door there was a dish filled with sweetened milk with little pieces of white bread floating in it. He was so pleased he almost laughed, as he was even hungrier than he had been that morning, and immediately dipped his head into the milk, nearly covering his eyes with it." ~ Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

Both agree but incorrect:

• "I had thereafter no desire to tear down that veil, to creep through; I held all beyond it in common contempt, and lived above it in a region of blue sky and great wandering shadows. That sky was bluest when I could beat my mates at examination-time, or beat them at a foot-race, or even beat their stringy heads." ~ The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois (Both believed this to be positive.)
• "Merely a concrete test of the underlying principles of the great republic is the Negro Problem, and the spiritual striving of the freedmen’s sons is the travail of souls whose burden is almost beyond the measure of their strength, but who bear it in the name of an historic race, in the name of this the land of their fathers’ fathers, and in the name of human opportunity." ~ The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois (Both believed this to be positive.)

Disagree:

• "Across the courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water, and the history of the summer really begins on the evening I drove over there to have dinner with the Tom Buchanans. Daisy was my second cousin once removed, and I’d known Tom in college. And just after the war I spent two days with them in Chicago." ~ The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (This was found to be neutral by Sentimood and positive by MeaningCloud.)
• "The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins; the freedman has not yet found in freedom his promised land." ~ The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois (This was found to be negative by MeaningCloud and positive by Sentimood.)

Part 4

Google Translate: Incorrect                   	 			Google Translate: Incorrect  	
	English --> French 							English --> French
 	I love you --> Je vous aime						Costs an arm and a leg --> Coûter un bras et une jambe 
  	French --> English							French --> English
	Je vous aime --> I love you  						Coûter un bras et une jambe --> Costs an arm and a leg
Deepl: Correct								Deepl: Incorrect
	English --> French 							English --> French
 	I love you --> Je t'aime						Costs an arm and a leg --> Coûte un bras et une jambe
  	French --> English							French --> English	
	Je t'aime --> I love you 						Coûter un bras et une jambe --> Costs an arm and a leg
									Real translation: 
Google Translate:Grammatically Correct (not how people usually say it)		English --> French
	English --> Arabic							Costs an arm and a leg --> Coûter les yeux de la tête
 	I love you --> انا احبك							French --> English
  	Arabic --> English							Coûter les yeux de la tête --> Costs the eyes of the head
	انا احبك --> I love you  
Bing: Correct								Google Translate: Incorrect
	English --> Arabic 							English --> Arabic
 	I love you --> أحبك							Too much of something is just as bad as too little of it --> الكثير من شيء ما سيء مثل القليل جدًا منه
  	Arabic --> English							Arabic --> English		
	أحبك --> I love you  							الكثير من شيء ما سيء مثل القليل جدًا منه --> Too much of something is just as bad as too little of it 
Bing: Incorrect								Real translation:
	English --> Arabic							English --> Arabic
	Too much is the same as too little --> الكثير من شيء سيء مثل القليل جدا منه		Too much of something is just as bad as too little of it --> الزائد أخو الناقص 
	Arabic --> English							Arabic --> English
	الكثير من شيء سيء مثل القليل جدا منه --> Too much is the same as too little 	الزائد أخو الناقص --> Excess is the brother of shortage 

Overall, these services did not do the languages justice, specifically with idioms and expressions. In theory these can be useful in practice, but if you say these to a native speaker, they'll either be confused or they'll know you aren't native speaker. It seems like Google Translate may not be the best service (least accurate), even for non-idiomatic expressions. But even then, these services sometimes work better in specific languages, so that's something to consider.

Part 5





For the first experiment I did I took pictures of myself wearing no hat and then wearing various different color hats. Sadly, I think the machine may have trouble distinguishing between similar colors. I had a red and pink hat and no matter how many pictures I used or how many trainings I did, the machine has a hard time distinguishing the two. After thing, when I wasn't wearing a hat, it would often tell me I was wearing the pink or red hat with a high confidence percent (this may be because of my hair color). One thing I found very interesting, was that the percentage would flucate depending on wear I was in the frame, which I did not expect. Sometimes the machine would have a higher confidence percent of me wearing the red and/or pink hat than its percentage of me not wearing a hat (see image). Overall, I didn't find this specific experiment to be very accurate.



For the second experiment, I used the pose feature. This was way more accurate than the image recognition. It was able to distingush my poses with 100% confidence each time. This was interesting because I uploaded half the amount of pictures I uploaded in the first experiment, yet I recieved better results on the first try. I did have one pose it didn't recognize, but that was because it was extremely similar to another pose I was doing, so I had to delete that from the training. Other than that, the second experiment had no bumps.