Kirill Maslinsky
@maslinych.bsky.social
Computational literary studies with a modicum of pure linguistics | research design, infrastructure and methods guy | open data enthusiast and curator | doing theory+engineering @ ERC Advanced project “Theory of tone” @ INALCO, Paris
As a gift for a patient reader, a graph showing the cohorts in terms of total print runs. *Graphs are better news
March 26, 2025 at 5:48 AM
As a gift for a patient reader, a graph showing the cohorts in terms of total print runs. *Graphs are better news
no context graph: the number of translated books for children printed in Soviet Russia and USSR 1918-1984, split into “cohorts” by the moment a translated author first appears in the data. In red are mostly those “classics” who stay with us: Grimms, Andersen, Jules Verne etc.
March 26, 2025 at 5:48 AM
no context graph: the number of translated books for children printed in Soviet Russia and USSR 1918-1984, split into “cohorts” by the moment a translated author first appears in the data. In red are mostly those “classics” who stay with us: Grimms, Andersen, Jules Verne etc.
The data is part of Daria's ongoing research, and she does wonderful things with it. As a teaser, here's Daria's graph showing cosine similarity between journals based on the poets who published there. Huge shoutout to Daria for sharing these data!
March 3, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The data is part of Daria's ongoing research, and she does wonderful things with it. As a teaser, here's Daria's graph showing cosine similarity between journals based on the poets who published there. Huge shoutout to Daria for sharing these data!
How many tonal languages are out there in the world? If you need an estimate based on most comprehensive database to date, here it is: 42.7%. Concisely on a poster presented today at the #OCP22 conference in Amsterdam: zenodo.org/records/1481.... The database itself is online and has more ↓
February 5, 2025 at 8:37 PM
How many tonal languages are out there in the world? If you need an estimate based on most comprehensive database to date, here it is: 42.7%. Concisely on a poster presented today at the #OCP22 conference in Amsterdam: zenodo.org/records/1481.... The database itself is online and has more ↓
No context graph: a yearly proportion of total print run of all books for children printed in Soviet Russia/USSR split by gender of the author. Note the fluctuations of the share of the female authors. 1931 marks the governmental ban of private publishers, 1941 the nazi invasion. →
December 27, 2024 at 7:51 PM
No context graph: a yearly proportion of total print run of all books for children printed in Soviet Russia/USSR split by gender of the author. Note the fluctuations of the share of the female authors. 1931 marks the governmental ban of private publishers, 1941 the nazi invasion. →
Results: Death of the autocrat Nicolas I mattered, censorship pressure went down indeed. New editorial team was more politically-minded, it mattered too. But we don't see the expected resumption of censorship in the corpus. Authorities just closed the magazine. 8/n
November 30, 2024 at 4:12 PM
Results: Death of the autocrat Nicolas I mattered, censorship pressure went down indeed. New editorial team was more politically-minded, it mattered too. But we don't see the expected resumption of censorship in the corpus. Authorities just closed the magazine. 8/n
To properly account for the uncertainty and document-level confounders we define document-level topic dissociation as a probability to see one of the topics in it, but not both. We estimated dissociation with Bayesian generalized linear model. dT is topic dissociation, T1,T2 - topics. 7/n
November 30, 2024 at 4:12 PM
To properly account for the uncertainty and document-level confounders we define document-level topic dissociation as a probability to see one of the topics in it, but not both. We estimated dissociation with Bayesian generalized linear model. dT is topic dissociation, T1,T2 - topics. 7/n
We measure topics with LDA, and censorship pressure with topical dissociation. Dissociation happens when one or the other of two topic (either literature or politics) occur in a document, but not both (a shaded area on the graph). 6/n
November 30, 2024 at 4:12 PM
We measure topics with LDA, and censorship pressure with topical dissociation. Dissociation happens when one or the other of two topic (either literature or politics) occur in a document, but not both (a shaded area on the graph). 6/n
Changes in the political and censorship regime shaped our expectations of the level of censorship pressure. Higher point on a graph mean higher pressure. The editorial team also changed, and article length varied. All this affects topic distribution and should be taken into account. 5/n
November 30, 2024 at 4:12 PM
Changes in the political and censorship regime shaped our expectations of the level of censorship pressure. Higher point on a graph mean higher pressure. The editorial team also changed, and article length varied. All this affects topic distribution and should be taken into account. 5/n
Can we see censorship in a historical corpus when it's hidden in plain sight? Our new #CHR2024 paper with Ekaterina Vozhik and @romanlisiukov.bsky.social looks for the footprint of censorship pressure in the trends of topic co-occurrence. 1/n
November 30, 2024 at 4:12 PM
Can we see censorship in a historical corpus when it's hidden in plain sight? Our new #CHR2024 paper with Ekaterina Vozhik and @romanlisiukov.bsky.social looks for the footprint of censorship pressure in the trends of topic co-occurrence. 1/n