26 March 2024, PhD-in-DaDriH Seminar Series, Filippo Mosca

This talk will explore the application of Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) Model to the writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein. Specifically, it will highlight what topic modeling is and why it can be useful for philosophical interpretation, show the two main stages of how LDA works in practice (data preprocessing and model execution), and address some major challenges in assembling the corpus of Wittgenstein's writings. Finally, initial results will be shown and the limitations and problems associated with these results will be pointed out.