Quantitative analysis of culture using millions of digitized books

We constructed a corpus of digitized texts containing about 4% of all books ever printed. Analysis of this corpus enables us to investigate cultural trends quantitatively. We survey the vast terrain of 'culturomics,' focusing on linguistic and cultural phenomena that were reflected in the...

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Vydáno v:Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Ročník 331; číslo 6014; s. 176
Hlavní autoři: Michel, Jean-Baptiste, Shen, Yuan Kui, Aiden, Aviva Presser, Veres, Adrian, Gray, Matthew K, Pickett, Joseph P, Hoiberg, Dale, Clancy, Dan, Norvig, Peter, Orwant, Jon, Pinker, Steven, Nowak, Martin A, Aiden, Erez Lieberman
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: United States 14.01.2011
Témata:
Algorithms
Cultural Evolution
Culture
Data Collection
Dictionaries as Topic
Encyclopedias as Topic
Famous Persons
Humanities
Linguistics
Literature
Social Sciences
Technology
Vocabulary
ISSN:1095-9203, 1095-9203
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Shrnutí:We constructed a corpus of digitized texts containing about 4% of all books ever printed. Analysis of this corpus enables us to investigate cultural trends quantitatively. We survey the vast terrain of 'culturomics,' focusing on linguistic and cultural phenomena that were reflected in the English language between 1800 and 2000. We show how this approach can provide insights about fields as diverse as lexicography, the evolution of grammar, collective memory, the adoption of technology, the pursuit of fame, censorship, and historical epidemiology. Culturomics extends the boundaries of rigorous quantitative inquiry to a wide array of new phenomena spanning the social sciences and the humanities.
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ISSN:1095-9203
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DOI:10.1126/science.1199644