Toward a computational history of universities: Evaluating text mining methods for interdisciplinarity detection from PhD dissertation abstracts

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 612-620 ◽  
Author(s):  
Federico Nanni ◽  
Laura Dietz ◽  
Simone Paolo Ponzetto

This issue of the history of universities contains, as usual, an interesting mix of learned articles and book reviews covering topics related to the history of higher education. The volume combines original research and reference material. This issue includes articles on the topics of Alard Palenc; Joseph Belcher and Latin at Harvard; Queens College in Massachusetts; and university reform in Europe. The text includes a review essay as well as the usual book reviews.


2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 127
Author(s):  
Imanol Merino Malillos

Resumen: En un contexto de predo­minio de la cultura letrada y del derecho, la presencia de magistrados naturales u ori­ginarios de un territorio en los principales órganos jurisdiccionales de la Corona podía propiciar ventajas a las entidades territoria­les de los lugares de los que aquellos proce­dían, así como a sus paisanos. Para facilitar su promoción, hacia 1638 uno de los letra­dos vizcaínos propuso a las instituciones provinciales fundar un colegio en Salamanca con la ayuda de los hijos de Vizcaya emigra­dos. Una proposición que atrajo la atención de las instituciones vizcaínas.Palabras clave: Historia de las uni­versidades, derecho, letrados, Señorío de Vizcaya, Universidad de Salamanca.Abstract: In a time when law and jus­tice were at the foundation of the society, as it was in the 16th and 17th centuries, the pre­sence of magistrates coming from a land in the main courts of the Spanish Monarchy could provide a wide range of advantages to the ins­titutions of those territories and the people from them. To make easier for their ‘sons’ to achieved those posts, in 1638 a lawyer from Biscay made a proposition to the institutions of Biscay. He set out the foundation of a Colle­ge in Salamanca, that should be set up with the money of the people from Biscay stablished abroad. A proposition that drawn the atten­tion of the institutions of Biscay.Keywords: History of universities, Law, lawyers, Lordship of Biscay, universities, University of Salamanca.


Author(s):  
Manish Gupta ◽  
Jiawei Han

Sequential pattern mining methods have been found to be applicable in a large number of domains. Sequential data is omnipresent. Sequential pattern mining methods have been used to analyze this data and identify patterns. Such patterns have been used to implement efficient systems that can recommend based on previously observed patterns, help in making predictions, improve usability of systems, detect events, and in general help in making strategic product decisions. In this chapter, we discuss the applications of sequential data mining in a variety of domains like healthcare, education, Web usage mining, text mining, bioinformatics, telecommunications, intrusion detection, et cetera. We conclude with a summary of the work.


Author(s):  
Soumya Raychaudhuri

The genomics era has presented many new high throughput experimental modalities that are capable of producing large amounts of data on comprehensive sets of genes. In time there will certainly be many more new techniques that explore new avenues in biology. In any case, textual analysis will be an important aspect of the analysis. The body of the peer-reviewed scientific text represents all of our accomplishments in biology, and it plays a critical role in hypothesizing and interpreting any data set. To altogether ignore it is tantamount to reinventing the wheel with each analysis. The volume of relevant literature approaches proportions where it is all but impossible to manually search through all of it. Instead we must often rely on automated text mining methods to access the literature efficiently and effectively. The methods we present in this book provide an introduction to the avenues that one can employ to include text in a meaningful way in the analysis of these functional genomics data sets. They serve as a complement to the statistical methods such as classification and clustering that are commonly employed to analyze data sets. We are hopeful that this book will serve to encourage the reader to utilize and further develop text mining in their own analyses.


This monographic issue of History of Universities presents new materials and case studies in order to deepen our understanding of the role of the academic milieu in the early modern reshaping of natural philosophy. The contributions included in this volume aim to pursue two main axes of research: (1) the reconstruction and exploration of the dialectics between tradition and innovation in the reshaping of natural philosophy; (2) the attempt to constitute and consolidate new traditions in natural philosophy. This introduction presents the general topic of the volume, the methodological approach developed by the contributors and the contents of each contribution.


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