A Visual Representation of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Anca Bucur, Sergiu Nisioi


Abstract
In this paper we will discuss a method for data visualization together with its potential usefulness in digital humanities and philosophy of language. We compiled a multilingual parallel corpus from different versions of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-philosophicus, including the original in German and translations into English, Spanish, French, and Russian. Using this corpus, we compute a similarity measure between propositions and render a visual network of relations for different languages.
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W16-4010
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Proceedings of the Workshop on Language Technology Resources and Tools for Digital Humanities (LT4DH)
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December
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2016
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Osaka, Japan
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Erhard Hinrichs, Marie Hinrichs, Thorsten Trippel
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LT4DH
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The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee
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71–75
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Anca Bucur and Sergiu Nisioi. 2016. A Visual Representation of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Language Technology Resources and Tools for Digital Humanities (LT4DH), pages 71–75, Osaka, Japan. The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee.
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