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Charles Pence (Université catholique de Louvain): »Dynamic topic modeling and concept-mapping in philosophy«»Topic Modeling for Conceptual Cartography«
A not uncommon desire in digital humanities work is to take the measure of a concept or idea and its changing use and meaning over time. How and where has it been invoked? With what has it been related, and in what contexts? A natural tool, in turn, for this kind of work is topic modeling – the kinds of results that topic modeling provides could give us the “semantic neighborhood” surrounding a key term, and, carefully applied, show us how that neighborhood varies across a corpus. In this talk, I’ll present some efforts in this direction: successes and failures in a number of efforts to use topic models, supplemented with various kinds of other information or further complexity, to better understand the cartography of concepts in historical and contemporary philosophy of science. I hope to offer both some fruitful examples and some terrible warnings.
Mi/Wed · 18.01.2023 · 18:15–19:45
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