MIT Center for Civic Media - Algorithmically Finding Topics and Frames In The News
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CONTEXTS: Topic Frames Ali Hashmi/Sands Fish
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CONTEXTS: Topic Frames
Ali Hashmi/Sands Fish
PROBLEM
How do we discover insights in large amounts of data?
How is a topic discussed or represented?
How is a topic framed?
What is its context?
Xu Bing (b. 1955). Book from the Sky, ca. 1987–1991. New York MET.
DISCOURSEDiscourse as a way of speaking/ representation
“the general domain of all statements sometimes as an individualizable group of statements, and sometimes as a regulated practice that accounts for a number of statements”
METHODOLOGY
Unsupervised Learning
Discover underlying discourse structure or CONTEXT
Identify latent semantic connections
TOOL FOR MEDIA CLOUD
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