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SUMMARY:CERES Computer Café: Anomalies and Change Points in Systems of Sy
 mbolic Production
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DESCRIPTION:Gastvortrag in englischer Sprache von Kristoffer Laigaard Niel
 bo\, Interactive Minds Centre\, Aarhus Universitet.\n\nHumans exhibit a sp
 ecies-unique capacity for long-term planning and future-oriented cognition
 . This ‘deep temporality’ is so fundamental to human behavior\, that i
 t can be considered the hallmark of our symbolically mediated environmenta
 l interactions. Cultural systems of symbolic production therefore exhibit 
 long-range temporal dependencies and non-linear dynamics that can present 
 a challenge to conventional methods in culture research. In this talk we p
 resent an approach that combines Latent Dirichlet Allocation and Adaptive 
 Fractal Analysis with concepts from Information Theory in order to detect 
 change points and anomalies in cultural systems. To illustrate the approac
 h’s application\, we use two different dynamic cultural systems:\n\n\n	t
 he collected writings of an influential Danish pastor and liberal thinker\
 , N.F.S. Grundtvig\;\n	and the Classical Chinese Book of History (Shang Sh
 u) from the ctext corpus.\n\n\nWe argue that\, when combined with sufficie
 nt domain knowledge in language and culture\, the approach can be used to 
 validate a set of generic theoretical claims about cultural stability and 
 change.\n
LOCATION:CERES-Palais\, Raum "Ruhrpott" (4.13)
URL:https://ceres.rub.de/de/events/ceres-computer-cafe-anomalies-and-chang
 e-points/
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