Semantic Web techniques for the study of large-scale philosophical corpora [postponed to 2020].
Betti, A.
September 2018.
FOIS 2018
Paper
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bibtex
abstract
@misc{betti_semantic_2018,
address = {Cape Town},
type = {Keynote {Lecture}},
title = {Semantic {Web} techniques for the study of large-scale philosophical corpora [postponed to 2020]},
url = {http://fois2018.cs.uct.ac.za/?page_id=10},
abstract = {In this talk I present a novel, experimental and ongoing application of ontologies developed within *eIdeas*, a project aiming at creating a computational methodology for the history of ideas.
The overall goal of *eIdeas* is to scale up research in humanities fields concerned with tracing concept drift in large textual corpora without sacrificing interpretive depth. The core idea is to combine top down and bottom up computational techniques, namely conceptual modelling for (expert) knowledge representation via description logics on the one hand, and NLP techniques (mostly word embeddings) on the other hand.
In the application I will introduce, we use semantic web techniques (ontologies and reasoners) to help experts decide in favor or against alternative philosophical interpretations of a well-defined textual corpus. The corpus consists of a substantial part of the complete *oeuvre* of an important 19th century thinker, the Bohemian polymath Bernard Bolzano (1781-1848). I will cover general methodological considerations, validation, and results, and wrap up with challenges and future work.},
author = {Betti, Arianna},
collaborator = {Hungerbühler, Silvan and van Wierst, Pauline and Carretta Zamborlini, Veruska},
month = sep,
year = {2018},
note = {FOIS 2018},
}
In this talk I present a novel, experimental and ongoing application of ontologies developed within *eIdeas*, a project aiming at creating a computational methodology for the history of ideas. The overall goal of *eIdeas* is to scale up research in humanities fields concerned with tracing concept drift in large textual corpora without sacrificing interpretive depth. The core idea is to combine top down and bottom up computational techniques, namely conceptual modelling for (expert) knowledge representation via description logics on the one hand, and NLP techniques (mostly word embeddings) on the other hand. In the application I will introduce, we use semantic web techniques (ontologies and reasoners) to help experts decide in favor or against alternative philosophical interpretations of a well-defined textual corpus. The corpus consists of a substantial part of the complete *oeuvre* of an important 19th century thinker, the Bohemian polymath Bernard Bolzano (1781-1848). I will cover general methodological considerations, validation, and results, and wrap up with challenges and future work.
Conceptual Schemes: a small history in Ones and Zeroes.
Betti, A.
November 2018.
Mathematics and its Philosophy between the 18th and the 19th Century, Amsterdam, 13-14 Juy 2018
link
bibtex
abstract
@misc{betti_conceptual_2018,
address = {Amsterdam},
type = {Keynote {Lecture}},
title = {Conceptual {Schemes}: a small history in {Ones} and {Zeroes}},
abstract = {The notion of *conceptual scheme* is of key philosophical significance. Its origin, development, and spread are nevertheless unclear. Several purely qualitative and competing historical hypotheses have been offered, which rely on disconnected disciplinary traditions, and have never been tested all at once in a single comprehensive investigation fitting the scope of its subject matter. As a step toward such an investigation, I present an ongoing study in which we trace the use of the bigram “conceptual scheme” in a large corpus of tens of thousands of US journal articles from 1888-1969 in philosophy, psychology, anthropology, sociology and linguistics. We use a novel method combining a quantitative procedure aided by basic computational techniques with qualitative elements informed by Betti and van den Berg (2014)’s ‘model approach to the history of ideas’.},
author = {Betti, Arianna},
collaborator = {van den Berg, Hein and Bloem, Jelke and Oortwijn, Yvette and Treijtel, Caspar},
month = nov,
year = {2018},
note = {Mathematics and its Philosophy between the 18th and the 19th Century, Amsterdam, 13-14 Juy 2018},
}
The notion of *conceptual scheme* is of key philosophical significance. Its origin, development, and spread are nevertheless unclear. Several purely qualitative and competing historical hypotheses have been offered, which rely on disconnected disciplinary traditions, and have never been tested all at once in a single comprehensive investigation fitting the scope of its subject matter. As a step toward such an investigation, I present an ongoing study in which we trace the use of the bigram “conceptual scheme” in a large corpus of tens of thousands of US journal articles from 1888-1969 in philosophy, psychology, anthropology, sociology and linguistics. We use a novel method combining a quantitative procedure aided by basic computational techniques with qualitative elements informed by Betti and van den Berg (2014)’s ‘model approach to the history of ideas’.
Computational Tools in the History of Ideas [canceled].
Betti, A.
July 2018.
Mathematics and its Philosophy between the 18th and the 19th Century, Amsterdam, 13-14 Juy 2018
Paper
link
bibtex
abstract
@misc{betti_computational_2018,
address = {Amsterdam},
type = {Invited {Lecture}},
title = {Computational {Tools} in the {History} of {Ideas} [canceled]},
url = {https://philmathsbolzano.wordpress.com/},
abstract = {In this talk I introduce a number of computational techniques and tools that can be fruitfully applied to the history of philosophy, and challenges that arise from using them. The talk is based on recent hands-on experience with these techniques and tools within the \_Concepts in Motion\_ group (conceptsinmotion.org). I will touch upon tools and techniques for (i) OCR and corpus building, (ii) corpus preprocessing, (iii) text-mining using (largely bottom-up) both information retrieval, word embeddings and deep NLP, (iv) (top down) conceptual modelling and (v) visualisation. Challenges include evaluation and reliability of the computational approach.},
author = {Betti, Arianna},
month = jul,
year = {2018},
note = {Mathematics and its Philosophy between the 18th and the 19th Century, Amsterdam, 13-14 Juy 2018},
}
In this talk I introduce a number of computational techniques and tools that can be fruitfully applied to the history of philosophy, and challenges that arise from using them. The talk is based on recent hands-on experience with these techniques and tools within the _Concepts in Motion_ group (conceptsinmotion.org). I will touch upon tools and techniques for (i) OCR and corpus building, (ii) corpus preprocessing, (iii) text-mining using (largely bottom-up) both information retrieval, word embeddings and deep NLP, (iv) (top down) conceptual modelling and (v) visualisation. Challenges include evaluation and reliability of the computational approach.