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“Understand this for me”

Software for Concept Analysis David Upton (Stirling Reid Limited)

Operational analysis example

Words.

Language Games

Wittgenstein: Language Games

Please paint the back door this afternoon….. Was that not what you wanted?

Ranges of meaning: “affordability”

Language games as group indicators

“…We [SBS] even had a different language from the

• SAS. For scoff we said scran. We had a wet, they had a
• brew. We went for a yomp, they a tab. We went to the

head, they to the *******…” (Duncan Falconer, ‘First Into Action’, 1998)

Operationalising this idea

Spies and cyphers

Noisy channel examples (1)

 You receive ‘yhe’ instead of ‘the’:

 Error explained by ‘y’ key being next to ‘t’ on

standard keyboard.

 Deduction: channel involved QWERTY keyboard.

Noisy channel examples (2)

 You receive ‘ind’

instead of ‘and’

 i = ..  a = .-  Error explained by

• ne Morse code ‘digit’

being wrong.

 Deduction: channel

involved morse code

We need something to compare

Selecting a corpus?

Buildings? Large craters? Roads? Small craters?

Dictionaries

Just a matter of counting!

for file in target_list:

filepath = self.training_folder+'\\'+file mydict = self.open_json(filepath, values) for item in mydict['data']: if item[0] in fuzzy_dict.keys(): fuzzy_dict[item[0]] += item[1]/mydict['size'] else: fuzzy_dict[item[0]] = int(item[1])/int(mydict['size' signature1 = {} signature1['data'] = fuzzy_dict.most_common(signature_length)

Ranges of meaning: “affordability”

cost expenditure money media reputation image waste responsible energy bargain saving cheap risk survival secure time speed late

Summary

Summary

• A system to measure the ‘meanings’ of words, as

they are used by different writers

• Avoid misunderstanding
• Address requirements more precisely
• Assess opposing views more clearly
• Better document triage.
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