культурологи, мать их

Jan 19, 2011 22:58

Занятно:

The long and short of it all is that the next few years are going to be a wild ride. I’m convinced that advances in digital humanities are reaching the point where they’re going to start allowing us to describe some large, fascinating, and until now largely invisible patterns.

Собственно статья (не читал, но осуждаю завтра с работы будет доступ к pdf :)

We constructed a corpus of digitized texts containing about 4% of all books ever printed... [We are] 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...
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