Big Data, social dynamics and natural language

• Grant number: 18/11522-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: August 01, 2018
• End date: February 17, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Philosophy
• Agreement: Trans-Atlantic Platform for the Social Sciences and Humanities
• Principal Investigator: Maria Eunice Quilici Gonzalez
• Grantee: Fernanda Farinelli
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências (FFC). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Marília. Marília , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 16/50256-0 - Understanding opinion and language dynamics using massive data , AP.R

Abstract

In this post-doctoral project, the grantee will participate in the Brazilian team for the research project "Understanding opinion dynamics and language evolution using massive data" (T-AP project). Specifically, the grantee will work with the other members of the Brazilian team on the part of the T-AP project that involves research on language evolution by means of "Big Data" analyses. The grantee will bring a knowledge of Linguistics and Semiotics to the investigation, will assist in the development of computational models of language dynamics, and will investigate the following question: can big data be used to bring relevant evidence to bear in support of the hypothesis that natural languages have most of the characteristics of complex adaptive systems? (AU)