Jul 07, 2015
• Work Context
• Topic Map Creation: Schema & Population
• Analysis & Results
• New Measurements
• Other Visualizations
• Conclusions and future work
The Hispanic Baroque Project
• Mapping of Baroque:
• Methodology for Mapping Culture.
• Tools:
• Comparison tools.
• Description tools.
• Semantic annotation of Cultural Objects:
• Art, Text, History, Music...
• Model of knowledge representation.
• Semantic linking between data, concepts andsources.
• Schema layer vs. Data layers: different levelsof abstraction.
• “Layers as independent TMs” takes us to“independence of interpretation”.
• Calderón (Spain, 1600-1681).• Writer for the King and the Church.• Representative playwright of the Baroque.
• Casa con dos puertas(A House with two Doors)
• El sitio de Bredá(The Siege of Breda)
• El príncipe constante(The Constant Prince)
1640
• Casa con dos puertas (H2D)Love story
Family Honor / Trick
• El sitio de Bredá (SB)Historic drama
[Calderon’s contemporary Event]
• El príncipe constante (CP)Didactic drama
Honor & Religion
• Characters
• Places
• Objects
• Feelings
• Actions
• …
• From the plays (interpretation):
Señor don Luis, ya sabéisque estimo vuestras finezas,supuesto que lo merecenpor amorosas y vuestras;pero no puedo pagarlas,que eso han de hacer las estrellasy no hay de lo que no hacenquien las tome residencia; si lo que menos se hallaes hoy lo que más se preciaen la Corte, agradecedel desengaño, si quiera,por ser cosa que se hallacon dificultad en ella:quedad con Dios.(La Dama Duende, Jornada 1, Versos: 278-292)
Doña Beatriz
Don Luismostrar / to show
hablar de / to talk about
aprecio / esteem
corte / court
desengaño / unhappy love affair
hablar de / to talk about rechazar /
to reject
Context: Play
Ocurrence
• From “external” sources (they provide new contexts):• Geography: Ocaña is in Spain
• History: “La rendición de Bredá” was in 1625
• Mythology: Zeus is from Greek Mythology
• …
• Academic annotations (more contexts)
Characters:LisardoMarcelaDon FélixLaura
Topics:HonorTrickJealousyOcaña (Place)
Characters:Marqués EspínolaAlonso LadrónC. Enrique de VergasJustino de Nasau
Topics:HonorCourageStrategySurrender
Characters:Don FernandoMuleyMoorish KingDon Enrique
Topics:HonorBenevolenceDeathCeuta(Place)
Topics:HonorSpainCourageStrategyWarSurrenderJealousy
• New measurements: Co-occurrence
A and B are co-occurring in a fragment F(A co-ocF B) if there exist someassociations as1, as2 and some topics Cand D where A as1 C, and B as2 D in F.
Co-occurring grade of A and B:
Groc(A,B) = card{F: A co-ocF B}
Interpretation:If two topics occur in semantic relationsin the same fragments of the text a highnumber of times, they “must” have asemantic relation (at least, subjectivelyfor the author), and has a highphilological value for subsequentanalysis.
• Computing Co-occurrence in one play.
• TMs provide a comfortable tool to organizecomplex cultural information and generate thefirst levels of analysis.
• Topic Maps (semantic) vs. Text Mining (syntax).
• Representations show different approaches toanalysis and allow different interpretations ofthe data.
• Topic Maps, visualizations and analysis of allCalderón’s comedies.
• Extend this methodology to other culturalmanifestations, cultural epochs and cultural objectssuch as:
• Artwork, Music, Literature
• Development of a tool that incorporates the differentsteps necessaries for this methodology.
• Extraction of new semantic connections.• Development of measures allowing the comparison
between TMs (reflecting what we will understand as“distance” between cultural objects).
Tools:Data Base Manager: FileMakerTopic Map Manager: WandoraGraph Visualizer: yEdTimeLines: Simile TimelineMulti-Agent System: NetLogo
http://www.hispanicbaroque.ca/ (SSHRC)