Słowozbiory „Tekstów Drugich”
Topic Modeling on Second Texts

Summary/Abstract: The article analyzes the thematic structure in the issues of the scholarly journal SecondTexts, in 1990–2012, using the topic modeling methodology. Based on 1923 articles fromthis period, the authors obtained and interpreted 120 automatically inferred topicsfrom subsequent issues. The analysis allowed for the identification of permanent andseasonal topics, which appeared with a growing or declining frequency over time. Theapplication of quantitative methods enabled the authors to capture the history of thediscipline not so much as a series of distinct phases but rather as a continuous processbuilt from different configurations of co-existing research interests.

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