Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books
J. Michel, and et al.. Science, (16.12.2010 2010)Vgl. auch das Supporting Online Material unter: www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/science.1199644/DC1.
Abstract
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.
Description
DOI: 10.1126/science.1199644. Achtung: Die Zahlenangabe "12" in Fig. 1A, 2. Reihe ("12 million books scanned") ist offenkundigfalsch und muss richtig lauten: "15 million books scanned" (vgl. auch den redaktionellen Hinweis bei Weber 2010:http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/literatur-das-buecher-genom-1.1037216).
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%X 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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