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
CCS'15 Empirical Attractors in Sentence Reformulation Processes
By Sébastien Lerique
CCS'15 Empirical Attractors in Sentence Reformulation Processes
Presentation for CCS'15 in the Complexity in Language, Linguistics, Cognition, & Social Systems track.
