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ETHNOGRAPHIC DATA SCIENCE AND EHRAF: INFERRING CULTURAL PATTERNS FROM
ETHNOGRAPHIC WRITING

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Demo materials

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What can artificial intelligence and machine learning contribute to
anthropology, the most human of disciplines? Ethnography combines elements of
science and humanities, with ethnographic writing mediating exposition and
science. Data science techniques such as Natural Language Processing (NLP) and
statistical analysis can lead to better understanding of patterns emerging from
ethnographer accounts of observations and experiences within or across societies
and cultures.

iKLEWS (Infrastructure for Knowledge Linkages from Ethnography of World
Societies) is an NSF-funded HRAF project which seeks to use data science to
create digital semantic infrastructure and associated computer services
supporting research based on HRAF’s growing ethnographic database, eHRAF World
Cultures. A basic goal of iKLEWS is to greatly expand the research support of
eHRAF World Cultures for addressing scientific, scholarly and applied research.


DEMONSTRATION AT THE AAA/CASCA ANNUAL MEETING IN TORONTO, CANADA (NOVEMBER
16-18)

On Friday, November 17 from 1:30-2:30pm, there will be a demonstration at the
HRAF booth in the exhibit hall at Metro Toronto Convention Centre to illustrate
how the developments produced via iKLEWS can facilitate and enhance research
using the eHRAF World Cultures database. The demonstration by Prof. Michael
Fischer, HRAF Vice President, will showcase a web app featuring prototype tools
and analysis for HRAF data including visualizations such as concept maps and 3D
Principal Component Analysis (PCA) graphs.



In NLP, the Word2Vec algorithm uses a neural network model trained on a large
corpus of text in order to reconstruct the linguistic contexts of words. With
each word in the corpus being assigned a “vector” in space, the model is able to
learn word associations, detect synonyms, and suggest other related terms. PCA
plots are another way to visualize the data in a 3D field. As the demonstration
will show, starting with just a few concepts as keywords, these can be expanded
to lists of related terms drawn from the eHRAF corpus. Networks of these terms
and how these interconnect, together with relevant excerpts from ethnographic
texts, can lead the researcher to further related material.

Learn more about how to find HRAF at the AAA/CASCA 2023 Annual Meeting.



 

 

 

 

 


Posted by: Fran Barone // Feature // AAA/CASCA 2023, Annual Meeting,
Anthropology, Ethnography, data, data science, demonstration, ethnographic data
science, iKLEWS // November 10, 2023


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