@inproceedings{Fankhauser2016, title = {Topical Diversification over Time in the Royal Society Corpus}, author = {Peter Fankhauser and J{\"o}rg Knappen and Elke Teich}, url = {https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Topical-Diversification-Over-Time-In-The-Royal-Fankhauser-Knappen/7f7dce0d0b8209d0c841c8da031614fccb97a787}, year = {2016}, date = {2016}, booktitle = {Proceedings of Digital Humanities (DH'16)}, address = {Krakow, Poland}, abstract = {Science gradually developed into an established sociocultural domain starting from the mid-17th century onwards. In this process it became increasingly specialized and diversified. Here, we investigate a particular aspect of specialization on the basis of probabilistic topic models. As a corpus we use the Royal Society Corpus (Khamis et al. 2015), which covers the period from 1665 to 1869 and contains 9015 documents.}, pubstate = {published}, type = {inproceedings} }