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SUMMARY:Methods and Interactive Tools for Exploring the Semantics of Essen
 tially Contested Concepts - Paul Nulty (CRASSH-Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Dimitri Kartsaklis
DESCRIPTION:Political concepts are often characterised as "essentially con
 tested" in the sense that their essential meanings are necessarily in disp
 ute when we deploy them in adversarial political discourse. When tasked wi
 th precisely describe the meaning of an abstract word\, modern lexicograph
 ers and computational linguists turn to a descriptive analysis of the term
 's use in context\, looking for statistical patterns of syntactic or windo
 w-based word co-occurrence in large collections of digital text. This talk
  presents an application of the tools of distributional semantics to the p
 roblem of delineating the various complex\, multi-faceted\, and value-lade
 n meanings of abstract political concepts. I will demonstrate interactive 
 applications developed to allow researchers in intellectual history to exp
 lore these conceptual structures in historical corpora. This work is carri
 ed out as part of The Concept Lab\, an interdisciplinary research group ba
 sed at CRASSH\, Cambridge.
LOCATION:Boardroom\, Faculty of English\, West Road
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