{"id":1042,"date":"2021-10-12T14:26:53","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T12:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dhlunch.ijp.pan.pl\/?page_id=1042"},"modified":"2021-12-10T13:13:56","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T12:13:56","slug":"10-12-2021","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dhlunch.ijppan.pl\/en\/10-12-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"10.12.2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>From Stylometry to Phylogeny: Towards a Large-Scale History of Genres<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oleg Sobchuk (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History)<\/p>\n<div id=\"message-content-916295391534800958\" class=\"markup-2BOw-j messageContent-2qWWxC\">Phylogenetic trees and networks are crucial for evolutionary biology, and increasingly important \u2013 for the research on cultural evolution: the evolution of languages, folklore, or music traditions. Now, can we use phylogenies on a rather different subject \u2013 modern literature? Imagine a \u201ctree of literature\u201d, with various thematic clusters, such as genres, as its branches. This talk presents a work in progress moving towards this goal.<\/div>\n<div class=\"markup-2BOw-j messageContent-2qWWxC\">How does one construct a phylogeny? In cultural evolution, the usual approach involves manual coding of certain traits of cultural items (e.g., presence or absence of particular events in a folktale) and subsequent measurement of similarity between the lists of traits. This approach would not work for modern literature: its larger size makes manual coding extremely laborious. Instead, one could measure the similarity between books algorithmically \u2013 borrowing insights and tools from computational stylometry. But which algorithms are best at capturing the thematic (not stylistic!) similarity between books? To determine this, we have run an experimental study; this talk will present its preliminary results.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Stylometry to Phylogeny: Towards a Large-Scale History of Genres Oleg Sobchuk (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History) Phylogenetic trees and networks are crucial for evolutionary biology, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dhlunch.ijppan.pl\/en\/10-12-2021\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">10.12.2021<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1042","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhlunch.ijppan.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhlunch.ijppan.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhlunch.ijppan.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhlunch.ijppan.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhlunch.ijppan.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1042"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dhlunch.ijppan.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1060,"href":"https:\/\/dhlunch.ijppan.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1042\/revisions\/1060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhlunch.ijppan.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}