I always knew lda is the best

Maria Antoniak@mariaa.bsky.social · 6d ago

babe wake up, new results just dropped, lda is still great

new dataset: more than 104 thousand titles of works of fiction originally written in Russian or translated into Russian 1801–1975 in a dataset prepared by myself and Yauheniya Lekarevich dataverse.pushdom.ru/dataset.xhtm...

preprint announce: The proportion of books by dead writers in the publishing record can tell us something about the strength of the political censorship. Tested for translations of children's books from foreign langauges in USSR during the Cold War. hal.science/hal-05701575v1

The Union of Soviet Writers is a widely known organization that had an enormous impact on the Soviet literary landscape. What is less known is how wide the membership was. A new dataset presents the list of the 4692 members of the Union of Soviet Writers in 1959, based on a published index.

no context quote: ages ago I witnessed a discussion on a mailing list that ended with a motto: “if you will be writing to us with cron, we will be reading you with procmail.” A modern version would read “if you will be writing to us with ChatGPT, we will be reading you with Claude”

I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign

Formulas are a time-tested solution for recurring communicative tasks, cf. folk epic as Homer etc. Claude has evolved a formulaic language for itself, and now it's being codified. Very interesting indeed

mr. TIM@timkellogg.me · 2mo ago

Apparently in the next version of Fable, Anthropic changed their tokenizer based on real world usage and made “Let me check rather than answer from memory” into a single token, reportedly saving 43% of all token generation very interesting tinyurl.com/58zf9d3c

How to model learning of Mandarin tones with no supervision, from raw sound, with a realistic model of human language learning? The model learns the four tones (male only near perfectly) and also replicates stages of tone learning in language acquisition. What is more difficult to learn for children

I often show students this figure and ask, how different is the green distribution (p < 0.05) from the blue distribution (p = 0.10)? Just to raise some awareness that the difference between "statistical significant" and "not significant" is not always that significant...

A scholar possessing a singular vision and a frightening working resilience, he was hounded by Stalin repression machine, exiled, denied academic positions, firewood and food; his work was largely forgotten until 2000s. So we, who were influenced by him at the rise of DH, keep remembering.

Boris Yarkho, a Moscow formalist, was born today in 1889; his work of 1920-1930s fully anticipates computational literary studies: statistical methods used not for stylistics or attribution, but for questions of literary history and theory Read him, if you haven't www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

Speech Distribution in Five-Act Tragedies (A Question of Classicism and Romanticism)

Article Speech Distribution in Five-Act Tragedies (A Question of Classicism and Romanticism) was published on March 1, 2019 in the journal Journal of Literary Theory (volume 13, issue 1).

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no context graph: the number of translated books for children printed in Soviet Russia and USSR 1918-1984, split into “cohorts” by the moment a translated author first appears in the data. In red are mostly those “classics” who stay with us: Grimms, Andersen, Jules Verne etc.

Along these lines, I recommend Carys Craig's "The AI-Copyright Trap," which argues (in my view convincingly) that copyright law is not actually academics' friend in a context in which big tech has more money than God: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

buy my book@nmamatas.bsky.social · 2y ago

What is utterly exhausting about all the illicit elibraries and now AI scraping of the same is the appeal to free access to textbooks and scientific information. These materials are owned by a cartel of academic publishers that are able to keep prices high because they claim copyrights. 1/

“Newness exists only in the minds of new up and coming researchers who didn’t live through it last time. To be really blunt, newness is just ignorance of the past.”

Blake Matthews@ebmatthews.bsky.social · 2y ago

In case you missed this last year…I think this is probably the most insightful thread/exchange about the current state of ecology (and some ecologists). It cuts at some of the core issues in the discipline, and asks “are we ok?”. dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2024/03/26/a...

While the world is on fire, and datasets disappear here and there, we continue our modest effort to publish open data on Russian literature. This time, the contents of the Soviet “thick journals” 1955—1990, a dataset by Daria Franklin www.dariafranklin.com. See ↓ for the data

thinking how optimality theory in phonology is like the linear modeling in social science. A model you can use when you don't have any specific theory of language, really. Epicycles all way down

How many tonal languages are out there in the world? If you need an estimate based on most comprehensive database to date, here it is: 42.7%. Concisely on a poster presented today at the #OCP22 conference in Amsterdam: zenodo.org/records/1481.... The database itself is online and has more ↓

Hi people! We need a new publisher for the proceedings of the #CHR conference. Any input is greatly appreciated! discourse.computational-humanities-research.org/t/call-for-i...

Call for input: finding a new publication venue for our conference proceedings

Dear Computational Humanities Research Community, As many of you know, we have been publishing our conference proceedings with CEUR Workshop Proceedings since the first edition of CHR back in 2020. C...

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No context graph: a yearly proportion of total print run of all books for children printed in Soviet Russia/USSR split by gender of the author. Note the fluctuations of the share of the female authors. 1931 marks the governmental ban of private publishers, 1941 the nazi invasion. →

“...it is important that everyone interested in data about culture is aware of the extent to which commercial interest prevents us from accessing data about the world in which we live, and uses the same data to shape the world for us.” bsky.app/profile/andr...

András Kiséry@andrask.bsky.social · 2y ago

This is a post about data, but we should have written it as a post about national and international cultural institutions. They can play a vital role not only in the production and circulation of culture, but also, in making it discoverable, researchable, knowable. open.substack.com/pub/translat...

NB: the huge thing -- an open multilingual corpus of poetry

Artjoms Šeļa@artjomshl.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our new paper is out that describes PoeTree ✒️🌳 dataset: a large collection of European poetry in 10 languages. All data are open; API, R & Python libraries, or query the whole thing on our website 📝 Paper: tinyurl.com/jdhss 🌍 Web browser: tinyurl.com/poetreeweb 💽 Full data: tinyurl.com/ptzenodo

Can we see censorship in a historical corpus when it's hidden in plain sight? Our new #CHR2024 paper with Ekaterina Vozhik and @romanlisiukov.bsky.social looks for the footprint of censorship pressure in the trends of topic co-occurrence. 1/n