scope case studies

[BarbaraMcG]

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[GiorgiatolfoBL]

First initial observations/thoughts (@BarbaraMcG @fedenanni @mcollardanuy @kasparvonbeelen @kasra-hosseini)

• Slave, Power and Labour are very good examples for testing purposes as they have very distinguished semantic meanings
• Techonology I find good for diachronic analysis (from treatise to application)
• Man / Woman (and a bit less Happiness / Anger) are good for sentiment analysis (positive/negative)
• Apple is interesting for the figurative use, but it's a bit tricky and depends on the corpus used

NATION:
##human communities sharing same values, etc.
##group of animals or plants (obsolete)

**SLAVE
## Ethinicity: large group of peoples inhabiting eastern Europe
## Figurative: one who is property of, object (slave device), sexual submission, entomology

**POWER
## Natural ability/person who controls/right/authority/strenght
## Technical: Electricity
## Nation
## Abstract: mathematic/geometry/statistics concept

**LABOUR
## inhuman: work, exertion, hardship
## human: person who produces an outcome
## figurative: childbearing
## political party

MAN
## Figurative (metonimy): quality/descriptive, virile, regarded in terms of the qualities of courage, strength [GT: controversial imho]
## human being (indefinite)
## object: chess, ship (indiaman)

WOMAN
## quality/descriptive: considered with reference to qualities traditionally attributed to the female sex, as weakness, fickleness, vanity, [GT:controversial]
## neutral human being as counterpart of man

HAPPINESS/ANGER
+ <----> - (negative feeling, violence, sorrow)
Vs
MAN/WOMAN
+ <----> - (opposition btw weak and strong)

APPLE
##figurative: part of the body, object of addection, forbidden fruit, rotten apple
##fruit

TECHNOLOGY
good for diachronic analysis
##tratise/art (obsolete, but in use at the timeframe we are interested in)
##practical industrial art

ART
## abstract general term: branches of study, discipline, skill
## object: application of creative skill and imagination (work of art)

DEMOCRACY
here the distinction is subtle
## people
## principles

[BarbaraMcG]

Very nice! I wonder if @kasparvonbeelen had in mind to have a list of OED sense IDs for each of these words? That way, we could test our method on more principled groups of senses

[GiorgiatolfoBL]

Hi @BarbaraMcG these are all in sharepoint (unless I misunderstood your comment).

[kasparvonbeelen]

@GiorgiatolfoBL this is great, thanks! As @BarbaraMcG mentioned, it'd be good to have sense identifiers for each of the subgroups, but we can do this later in a spreadsheet. But I like the distinctions you made, they are promising case studies.

[GiorgiatolfoBL]

Ah sorry, I thought word ID, not subgroups sense ids. The subgroups I made in some cases can include more than one sense. It should be easily doable with the pickles or a spreadsheet. Let me know how urgent this is and I will take care of it. Thanks!

[BarbaraMcG]

nice! If you have the time, it would be good to do this so we're ready when we need it for the paper :)

[kasparvonbeelen]

The subgroups I made in some cases can include more than one sense. It should be easily doable with the pickles or a spreadsheet. Let me know how urgent this is and I will take care of it. Thanks!

@GiorgiatolfoBL Having more than one sense_id in a subgroup would be good (we're aiming at more general clusters/distinctions within one lemma). If possible, can you make a Python dictionary in the format {subgroup_1 : [sense_id_1 , ...], subgroup_2: [sense_id 1, ...]} (or similar) and save it as JSON, that be helpful!

[GiorgiatolfoBL]

First draft: https://github.com/Living-with-machines/HistoricalDictionaryExpansion/blob/dev/data/test_cases.json
Let me know if it looks ok.
I've only done Slave, Power, Labour and Technology as I think these are the best candidates.
If it is ok, I'll do the rest for the other ones (though I think they are not as good cases as this)

[kasparvonbeelen]

@GiorgiatolfoBL This is perfect, thanks! Can you also distinguish figurative and non-figurative senses of "machine"?

[GiorgiatolfoBL]

done: https://github.com/Living-with-machines/HistoricalDictionaryExpansion/blob/dev/data/machine_senses_division.json

[GiorgiatolfoBL]

• add "other category" including ids that are not relevant
• check if it is possible to aggregate distinctions into figurative/non figurative
• add rationale behind distinction to the paper

[GiorgiatolfoBL]

@kasparvonbeelen @mcollardanuy @BarbaraMcG
ids updated, including "other" meanings

Regarding the possibility of aggregating figurative senses, I believe we should discuss it together. According to our decision I will then add some lines in the paper.
Currently groupings (for non-machine words) are:

['slave_sense_1_ethnicity',
 'slave_sense_2_humansubmission',
 'slave_sense_3_object',
 'slave_other',
 'power_sense_1_ability',
 'power_sense_2_legal',
 'power_sense_3_technical',
 'power_sense_4_maths',
 'power_other',
 'labour_sense_1_physical',
 'labour_sense_2_human',
 'labour_sense_3_figurative',
 'labour_sense_4_political',
 'labour_other',
 'technology_sense_1_treatise',
 'technology_sense_2_industrial',
 'technology_other']

File here: https://github.com/Living-with-machines/HistoricalDictionaryExpansion/blob/dev/data/test_cases.json