Empirical Attractors in
Sentence Reformulation Processes
Sébastien Lerique & Camille Roth / October 2, 2015
Complex
systems
Cognitive
science
Social
anthropology
Web mining
Epidemiology of representations
Developmental systems
Reformulation
processes
Norm models
ICWSM
Boyd & Richerson
Sperber
Ingold
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Approaching cultural change
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Quotations on the Web
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Controlled online experiments
Quotations on the Web
This crisis did not develop overnight and it will not be solved overnight
Nov 13, 2008 — telegraph.co.uk
Nov 15, 2008 — bbc.co.uk
MemeTracker dataset (now Nifty)
This problem did not develop overnight and it will not be solved overnight
frequency
age of acquisition
#phonemes
#synonyms
polysemy
Leskovec et al., 2009
Simmons et al., 2011
Single attractor
Specific behaviours
Convergence?
Semantics?
Lessons learned
1
2
Culture is relationships
Let's make more bridges!
Thanks
questions
organising
advising
listening and suggesting
You!
The CCS'15 Team
Camille Roth
Valeria Rizo
Susceptibility to substitution