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SUMMARY:CERES Computer Café: Anomalies and Change Points in Systems of Sy
 mbolic Production
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DESCRIPTION:Guest lecture by Kristoffer Laigaard Nielbo\, Interactive Mind
 s Centre\, Aarhus Universitet.\n\nHumans exhibit a species-unique capacity
  for long-term planning and future-oriented cognition. This ‘deep tempor
 ality’ is so fundamental to human behavior\, that it can be considered t
 he hallmark of our symbolically mediated environmental interactions. Cultu
 ral systems of symbolic production therefore exhibit long-range temporal d
 ependencies and non-linear dynamics that can present a challenge to conven
 tional methods in culture research. In this talk we present an approach th
 at combines Latent Dirichlet Allocation and Adaptive Fractal Analysis with
  concepts from Information Theory in order to detect change points and ano
 malies in cultural systems. To illustrate the approach’s application\, w
 e use two different dynamic cultural systems:\n\n\n	the collected writings
  of an influential Danish pastor and liberal thinker\, N.F.S. Grundtvig\;\
 n	and the Classical Chinese Book of History (Shang Shu) from the ctext cor
 pus.\n\n\nWe argue that\, when combined with sufficient domain knowledge i
 n language and culture\, the approach can be used to validate a set of gen
 eric theoretical claims about cultural stability and change.\n
LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13)
URL:https://dh.ceres.rub.de/en/events/ceres-computer-cafe-anomalies-and-ch
 ange-points/
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