This chapter presents the new field of 'data-driven history of philosophy'or 'computational
history of philosophy'as a branch of the digital humanities. The field is at present rather …

We present a novel, domain expert-controlled, replicable procedure for the construction of
concept-modeling ground truths with the aim of evaluating the application of word …

The 'model approach'facilitates a quantitative-oriented study of conceptual changes in large
corpora. This paper implements the 'model approach'to investigate the erosion of the …

In this position paper, we describe a number of methodological and philosophical
challenges that arose within our interdisciplinary Digital Humanities project CatVis, which is …

Recent research shows that valuable contributions are obtained by applying even simple,
well-known computational techniques to texts from the history and philosophy of science …

Computational linguistic research on language change through distributional semantic (DS)
models has inspired researchers from fields such as philosophy and literary studies, who …

Millions of scientific articles are published each year, making it difficult to stay abreast of
advances within even the smallest subdisciplines. Traditional approaches to the study of …

The information technological progress that has been achieved over the last decades has
also given the humanities the opportunity to expand their methodological toolbox. This …

This book describes the results of activities undertaken to construct the CLARIN research
infrastructure in the Low Countries, ie, in the Netherlands and in Flanders (the Dutch …

We evaluate the use of direct intrinsic word embedding evaluation tasks for specialized
language. Our case study is philosophical text: human expert judgements on the …