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Computational-Content-Analysis-2018 / 12-Jan-Quantitative-Analysis-of-Culture-Using-Millions-of-Digitized-Books

Michel, Jean-Baptiste et al. 2010. “Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books.” Science express, December 16.
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Characteristic of fame #5

Open KhwanKim opened 6 years ago

KhwanKim commented 6 years ago

This article tracked fame of the famous people by measuring the frequency of their name. Can we further look into the "characteristic" of fame, based on the words written in the same sentence which imply emotion or attitude (i.e., verbs or adjectives)? Or, can we match the famous name to the most frequently used descriptive words with the name?

This question derives from some basic assumption as follows. What if we are curious about whether someone's name was mentioned many times not because of his popularity but because of the crime he committed? We should be able to distinguish the character of the frequency for Charles Manson from that for The Beatles. Also, we should be able to distinguish "Nixon"s mentioned before the Watergate scandal from them after the scandal.

zahraamalias commented 6 years ago

Maybe we can also look at n-grams that are closely related to these 'famous people' to determine the 'characteristics' of their fame? For example, maybe the word 'the apprentice' and 'president of the United States' would be related closely to Trump in different points in his life?