Privacy

The Distance Machine logs some information about people's use of the site. This includes the titles of the texts uploaded and their lengths (measured in characters, words, and lines), the time when they were uploaded, the amount of time they took to process, and statistics about the results of the algorithm. We use these data primarily to make sure that the algorithm is working well with all of the texts that people are trying out. The Distance Machine does not presently log the IP addresses of uploaders.

Unsaved texts are deleted from the server within a few hours after the browser window is closed. If you save a text, it will remain on the server indefinitely; however, there will be no way for other users to find the text unless you send them a link. If you'd like us to remove a text that you have saved, please contact Jeffrey Binder.

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Source Code

The source code for this site is available under the MIT license at GitHub.

Google Books Ngrams Data

This site uses some of the data from the Google Ngram Viewer. This data set is available for download here. It is covered by the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

EEBO-TCP

This site also includes data from the publicly available Phase I of EEBO-TCP, a large corpus of manually transcribed early modern English books. The version used for the Distance Machine was downloaded from this site.

WordNet

This site incorporates data from WordNet. WordNet is freely distributed under the following terms:

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