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Topic Modeling the Reading and Writing Behavior of Information Foragers
Jaimie Murdock
The general problem of "information foraging" in an environment about which agents have incomplete information has been explored in many fields, including cognitive psychology, neu…
The Development of Darwin's Origin of Species
Jaimie Murdock, Colin Allen, Simon DeDeo
From 1837, when he returned to England aboard the , to 1860, just after publication of , Charles Darwin kept detailed notes of…
Topic Modeling the Hàn diăn Ancient Classics
Colin Allen, Hongliang Luo, Jaimie Murdock +4
Ancient Chinese texts present an area of enormous challenge and opportunity for humanities scholars interested in exploiting computational methods to assist in the development of n…
Multi-level computational methods for interdisciplinary research in the HathiTrust Digital Library
Jaimie Murdock, Colin Allen, Katy Börner +9
We show how faceted search using a combination of traditional classification systems and mixed-membership topic models can go beyond keyword search to inform resource discovery, hy…
Towards Evaluation of Cultural-scale Claims in Light of Topic Model Sampling Effects
Jaimie Murdock, Jiaan Zeng, Colin Allen
Cultural-scale models of full text documents are prone to over-interpretation by researchers making unintentionally strong socio-linguistic claims (Pechenick et al., 2015) without…
Exploration and Exploitation of Victorian Science in Darwin's Reading Notebooks
Jaimie Murdock, Colin Allen, Simon DeDeo
Search in an environment with an uncertain distribution of resources involves a trade-off between exploitation of past discoveries and further exploration. This extends to informat…
The Wisdom of the Few? "Supertaggers" in Collaborative Tagging Systems
Jared Lorince, Sam Zorowitz, Jaimie Murdock +1
A folksonomy is ostensibly an information structure built up by the "wisdom of the crowd", but is the "crowd" really doing the work? Tagging is in fact a sharply skewed process in…
LODE: Linking Digital Humanities Content to the Web of Data
Jakob Huber, Timo Sztyler, Jan Noessner +3
Numerous digital humanities projects maintain their data collections in the form of text, images, and metadata. While data may be stored in many formats, from plain text to XML to…