Semantic Web techniques for the study of large-scale philosophical corpora [postponed to 2020]. Betti, A. September, 2018. FOIS 2018
Semantic Web techniques for the study of large-scale philosophical corpora [postponed to 2020] [link]Paper  abstract   bibtex   
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.
@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},
}

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