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Cultural Observatory
Culturomics is a form of computational lexicology that studies human behavior and cultural trends through the quantitative analysis of digitized texts. Researchers data mine large digital archives to investigate cultural phenomena reflected in language and word usage. The term is an American neologism first described in a 2010 '' Science (journal), Science'' article called ''Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books'', co-authored by Harvard researchers Jean-Baptiste Michel and Erez Lieberman Aiden. Michel and Aiden helped create the Google Labs project Google Ngram Viewer which uses n-grams to analyze the Google Books digital library for cultural patterns in language use over time. Because the Google Ngram data set is not an unbiased sample, and does not include metadata, there are several pitfalls when using it to study language or the popularity of terms. Medical literature accounts for a large, but shifting, share of the corpus, which does not take ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Computational Lexicology
Computational lexicology is a branch of computational linguistics, which is concerned with the use of computers in the study of lexicon. It has been more narrowly described by some scholars (Amsler, 1980) as the use of computers in the study of '' machine-readable dictionaries''. It is distinguished from ''computational lexicography'', which more properly would be the use of computers in the construction of dictionaries, though some researchers have used computational lexicography as synonymous. History Computational lexicology emerged as a separate discipline within computational linguistics with the appearance of machine-readable dictionaries, starting with the creation of the machine-readable tapes of the ''Merriam-Webster Seventh Collegiate Dictionary'' and the ''Merriam-Webster New Pocket Dictionary'' in the 1960s by John Olney et al. at System Development Corporation. Today, computational lexicology is best known through the creation and applications of WordNet. As the comput ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
