The rise of effec­tive text min­ing by means of machine learn­ing has pro­duced new oppor­tu­ni­ties for the study of cul­ture. Avail­able text ana­lyt­ic meth­ods — such as n‑gram extrac­tion, top­ic mod­el­ing (e.g. LDA), enti­ty extrac­tion, word embed­ding (e.g. word2vec), etc. —  allow for the inves­ti­ga­tion of cul­tur­al pat­terns with­in dig­i­tal tex­tu­al media through the human…