Latin American Philosophy Mining

Authors: Juan R. Loaiza (U. Alberto Hurtado, Chile) and Miguel González Duque (Center for Basic Machine Learning in the Life Sciences, Denmark)

In this repository we track progress on a research project in which we apply text mining to philosophy journals in Latin America. Our aim is to provide insights into the history of philosophy in Latin America using a data-driven approach.

We started with Ideas y Valores (Colombia) and articles from 1951 to 2017.

Structure

├── img                 # Selected figures for README.md
├── notebooks           # Notebooks with preprocessing and analyses.
|   ├── models          # DTM model and related files
|   ├── results         # Results from our analyzes, including figures and tags
|   └── wordlists       # Stopwords and protected words lists
├── utils               # Helper utilities
└── README.md

Some figures and visualizations

Article distribution for each five-year period and number of words (without stopwords)

Main area distribution in the corpus

Most popular subareas within each main area