Seems interesting. Of course it depends on what the software is
actually doing, but word overlap doesn't necessarily mean semantic
overlap.
--Mike
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Frantz, Sue sfra...@highline.edu wrote:
Interesting Discover blog today:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2010/12/how-close-are-scientific-disciplines.
The author discusses the Stanford Dissertation Browser.
“The Stanford Dissertation Browser is an experimental interface for document
collections that enables richer interaction than search. Stanford's PhD
dissertation abstracts from 1993-2008 are presented through the lens of a
text model that distills high-level similarity and word usage patterns in
the data. You'll see each Stanford department as a circle, colored by school
and sized by the number of PhD students graduating from that department.”
http://nlp.stanford.edu/projects/dissertations/browser.html
Which dissertation abstracts are closest, according to their criteria, to
the ones produced in psychology?
Some were unsurprising, such as education, linguistics, psychiatry, and
neurobiology.
Others were more surprising, such as electrical engineering and geophysics.
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College
Psychology, Coordinator Des Moines, WA
206.878.3710 x3404 sfra...@highline.edu
Office of Teaching Resources in Psychology, Associate Director
Teaching of Psychology Idea Exchange (ToPIX)
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