1 code implementation • 24 Sep 2023 • Andres Karjus
The increasing capacities of large language models (LLMs) present an unprecedented opportunity to scale up data analytics in the humanities and social sciences, augmenting and automating qualitative analytic tasks previously typically allocated to human labor.
1 code implementation • 4 Sep 2023 • Andres Karjus, Christine Cuskley
Here we map and quantify linguistic divergence across the partisan left-right divide in the United States, using social media data.
no code implementations • 25 May 2023 • Juan Guerrero Montero, Andres Karjus, Kenny Smith, Richard A. Blythe
Language change is a cultural evolutionary process in which variants of linguistic variables change in frequency through processes analogous to mutation, selection and genetic drift.
1 code implementation • 22 May 2023 • Mark Mets, Andres Karjus, Indrek Ibrus, Maximilian Schich
We annotate a large set of pro and anti-immigration examples, and compare the performance of multiple language models as supervised learners.
2 code implementations • 11 May 2023 • Tillmann Ohm, Mar Canet Solà, Andres Karjus, Maximilian Schich
We introduce the Collection Space Navigator (CSN), a browser-based visualization tool to explore, research, and curate large collections of visual digital artifacts that are associated with multidimensional data, such as vector embeddings or tables of metadata.
no code implementations • 20 May 2022 • Andres Karjus, Mar Canet Solà, Tillmann Ohm, Sebastian E. Ahnert, Maximilian Schich
The quantification of visual aesthetics and complexity have a long history, the latter previously operationalized via the application of compression algorithms.
1 code implementation • 19 Mar 2021 • Andres Karjus, Richard A. Blythe, Simon Kirby, Tianyu Wang, Kenny Smith
Colexification refers to the phenomenon of multiple meanings sharing one word in a language.
1 code implementation • 16 Jun 2020 • Andres Karjus, Richard A. Blythe, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith
By contrast, in topics which are increasing in importance for language users, near-synonymous words tend not to compete directly and can coexist.
1 code implementation • 3 Nov 2018 • Andres Karjus, Richard A. Blythe, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith
Newberry et al. (Detecting evolutionary forces in language change, Nature 551, 2017) tackle an important but difficult problem in linguistics, the testing of selective theories of language change against a null model of drift.
1 code implementation • 2 Jun 2018 • Andres Karjus, Richard A. Blythe, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith
In this work, we introduce a simple model for controlling for topical fluctuations in corpora - the topical-cultural advection model - and demonstrate how it provides a robust baseline of variability in word frequency changes over time.