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- Post date 26th June 2020
- Post author By Alberto Acerbi
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Author: Alberto Acerbi
Sentiment analysis of song lyrics by genre
In a recent paper with Lotty Brand and Alex Mesoudi, we documented how the lyrics of popular songs have become sadder in the last few decades. The the…
Sentiment analysis of Child Ballads’ lyrics
I have recently published, together with Lotty Brand and Alex Mesoudi, a paper studying the expression of emotions in the lyrics of the last 50 years of English-language…
A few thoughts on cultural attraction
As I am finishing the work on the submission of a modelling paper about cultural attraction theory (the preprint, quite different from the current version, is here), I…
Cultural evolution in the digital age
Media coverage: Sturen algoritmen ons gedrag? Dat valt best mee, Trouw (The Netherlands) Tout ce que vous pensiez savoir d’Internet est (sans doute) faux, Le Point (France)
Cultural evolution of emotional expression in 50 years of song lyrics
Together with Lotty Brand, we wrote a piece for aeon about the paper: Why are pop songs getting sadder than they used to be? The piece was then…
Sichuan food and the transience of traditions
One of my secret passion (or not-so-secret, if you know me a bit) is cooking. Last weekend was devoted to the new edition of Fuchsia Dunlop’s The Food…
RStudio on Amazon Web Services
Here a situation that may have occurred to some of you: your R script (a model analysing a big dataset, a simulation where you test many parameter combinations)…