ADIOS LDA: When Grammar Induction Meets Topic Modeling

We explore the interplay between grammar induction and topic modeling approaches to unsupervised text processing. These two methods complement each other since one allows for the identification of local structures centered around certain key terms, while the other generates a document wide context of expressed topics. This approach allows us to access and identify semantic structures that would be otherwise hardly discovered by using only one of the two aforementioned methods. Using our approach, we are able to provide a deeper understanding of the topic structure by examining inferred information structures characteristic of given topics as well as capture differences in word usage that would be hard by using standard disambiguation methods. We perform our exploration on an extensive corpus of blog posts centered around the surveillance discussion, where we focus on the debate around the Snowden affair. We show how our approach can be used for (semi-) automated content classification and the extraction of semantic features from large textual corpora

Domesticating Spectacle in the Roman Empire. Representations of Public Entertainment in Private Houses of the Roman Provinces.

Gladiatorial combats, animal fights, and public executions of criminals were parts of the munus – public spectacles that took place over the course of multiple days and were an integral component of the social and political life of many communities across the Roman Empire. In this dissertation I reevaluate a corpus of 79 known images of spectacle dating from the 1st century BCE to the late 5th century CE, focusing on images of gladiatorial fights and animal hunts found on floor mosaics and wall paintings in areas once part of the Roman Empire. Rather than regard the images as illustrations of specific historical spectacles sponsored by a given patron, I argue that depictions are visual constructs that condense perceptions of the events into abstracted, abbreviated images. The images do not function as ‘eye-witness’ snapshots but instead are commentaries on a multivalent event. Taking into account the historical background of the munus, features of the visual representations themselves, the archaeological contexts in which the representations occur, and the greater geographical setting in which the sites are found, I identify both commonalities and regional variations among images. The formal analysis of the images reveals that the images conform to types and that they were often consciously adapted to fit specific architectural contexts. My reassessment of the archaeological contexts indicates that the great majority of images of spectacle originally appeared in publicly accessible spaces in private houses, including hallways, reception rooms, and bedroom, in addition to dining rooms. The distribution of these images throughout the Roman Empire is surprisingly uneven, with the largest clusters found at three sites: Cos (Greek Islands), Leptis Magna (Libya), and Trier (Germany). These clusters are shown to be the result of local fashions, historical associations, and the presence of prolific workshops. In contrast to earlier scholars, I understand the images of spectacle as celebrations of victory that drew upon established conventions for representing the munus. My study shows that the images fulfilled a variety of functions that reflected the social setting, wealth, and identity of a patron, all of which were often heavily influenced by the regional context.PhDClassical Art and ArchaeologyUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/120698/1/nicohigh_1.pd

Field survey and documentation of hillfort sites in the greater Trogir area in 2019 as a starting point of the systematic study of the Hyllean peninsula

Tijekom listopada 2019. godine u sklopu međunarodnoga projekta „Trogir Through Time“ – znanstveno-istraživačkoga projekta u suradnji Muzeja grada Trogira, Instituta za arheologiju u Zagrebu i Austrijskoga arheološkog instituta Austrijske akademije za znanost u Beču, izvršen je terenski pregled te fotogrametrijsko i topografsko dokumentiranje devet prapovijesnih nalazišta na širem trogirskom području (naselja Seget Gornji i Bristivica općine Seget te Blizna Gornja i Vinišće općine Marina). Riječ je o području sjeverozapadno od gradine Sutilija te s kompleksom Sutilija povezanim utvrđenjem Velika gradina i Baturova gomila u Baradićima kao i većim gradinskim nalazištima: Čurkovac iznad Bristivice s utvrđenjima Ćudine i Domazeti u njezinom neposrednoj okruženju, Grad iznad Blizne Gonje i s njom povezana utvrđenja Brig i Gradina te Oriješćak kod Vinišća. U radu su predstavljeni rezultati postignuti istraživanjima, uz uvodni dio kojim je detaljno opisano prethodno stanje istraženosti.“Trogir Through Time”, an international scientific research project of the Trogir Town Museum, the Institute of Archaeology in Zagreb, and the Austrian Archaeological Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, included a field survey and the photogrammetric and topographic documentation of nine prehistoric sites in the greater Trogir area (the settlements of Seget Gornji and Bristivica in the municipality of Seget, and Blizna Gornja and Vinišće in the municipality of Marina) in October 2019. It is the area northwest of the Sutilija hillfort and the related enclosures of Velika Gradina and Baturova Gomila in Baradići, and the large hillfort sites Čurkovac above Bristivica with the enclosures of Ćudine and Domazeti in its immediate vicinity, Grad above Blizna Gonja and its related enclosures Brig and Gradina, and Oriješćak near Vinišće. The paper presents the research results with an introduction part describing in detail the earlier state of research

Field survey and documentation of hillfort sites in the greater Trogir area in 2019 as a starting point of the systematic study of the Hyllean peninsula

Tijekom listopada 2019. godine u sklopu međunarodnoga projekta „Trogir Through Time“ – znanstveno-istraživačkoga projekta u suradnji Muzeja grada Trogira, Instituta za arheologiju u Zagrebu i Austrijskoga arheološkog instituta Austrijske akademije za znanost u Beču, izvršen je terenski pregled te fotogrametrijsko i topografsko dokumentiranje devet prapovijesnih nalazišta na širem trogirskom području (naselja Seget Gornji i Bristivica općine Seget te Blizna Gornja i Vinišće općine Marina). Riječ je o području sjeverozapadno od gradine Sutilija te s kompleksom Sutilija povezanim utvrđenjem Velika gradina i Baturova gomila u Baradićima kao i većim gradinskim nalazištima: Čurkovac iznad Bristivice s utvrđenjima Ćudine i Domazeti u njezinom neposrednoj okruženju, Grad iznad Blizne Gonje i s njom povezana utvrđenja Brig i Gradina te Oriješćak kod Vinišća. U radu su predstavljeni rezultati postignuti istraživanjima, uz uvodni dio kojim je detaljno opisano prethodno stanje istraženosti.“Trogir Through Time”, an international scientific research project of the Trogir Town Museum, the Institute of Archaeology in Zagreb, and the Austrian Archaeological Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, included a field survey and the photogrammetric and topographic documentation of nine prehistoric sites in the greater Trogir area (the settlements of Seget Gornji and Bristivica in the municipality of Seget, and Blizna Gornja and Vinišće in the municipality of Marina) in October 2019. It is the area northwest of the Sutilija hillfort and the related enclosures of Velika Gradina and Baturova Gomila in Baradići, and the large hillfort sites Čurkovac above Bristivica with the enclosures of Ćudine and Domazeti in its immediate vicinity, Grad above Blizna Gonja and its related enclosures Brig and Gradina, and Oriješćak near Vinišće. The paper presents the research results with an introduction part describing in detail the earlier state of research

CP-North: Living life in the Nordic countries? A retrospective register research protocol on individuals with cerebral palsy and their parents living in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland

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Le Mort dans la ville

Le développement de rites mortuaires complexes dans l’histoire de l’Homme a résulté dans un rôle croissant joué par les pratiques funéraires utilisées comme moyen de resserrer les liens à l’intérieur d’une même communauté. À cet égard, le singulier usage d'inhumer un individu au cœur de la communauté révèle avec acuité la force de cette relation que pouvaient entretenir les vivants et les morts. Les découvertes archéologiques récentes ont souligné l’importance de telles pratiques liées aux inhumations intra-muros en Anatolie. Bien qu’il semble possible de tisser un lien continu entre ces coutumes, les contextes dans lesquels s’inscrivent la pratique d’inhumer une personne au cœur même de la communauté, depuis l’enfant du Néolithique à Çatalhöyük à la libraire de Celsius à Ephèse, en passant par le Mausolée d'Halicarnasse, ont néanmoins radicalement changés en fonction des époques et des lieux. L’objectif de ce volume, en rassemblant des spécialistes de périodes et d’horizons différents, est d’offrir non seulement un point général de nos connaissances sur ces questions, mais aussi un éclairage concernant le mécanisme de ces pratiques, leur contexte et leur impact en Anatolie, du début de l’Âge du Bronze à l’époque romaine

The genetic history of the Southern Arc: a bridge between West Asia and Europe

By sequencing 727 ancient individuals from the Southern Arc (Anatolia and its neighbors in Southeastern Europe and West Asia) over 10,000 years, we contextualize its Chalcolithic period and Bronze Age (about 5000 to 1000 BCE), when extensive gene flow entangled it with the Eurasian steppe. Two streams of migration transmitted Caucasus and Anatolian/Levantine ancestry northward, and the Yamnaya pastoralists, formed on the steppe, then spread southward into the Balkans and across the Caucasus into Armenia, where they left numerous patrilineal descendants. Anatolia was transformed by intra–West Asian gene flow, with negligible impact of the later Yamnaya migrations. This contrasts with all other regions where Indo-European languages were spoken, suggesting that the homeland of the Indo-Anatolian language family was in West Asia, with only secondary dispersals of non-Anatolian Indo-Europeans from the steppe