Perceiving Arctic Landscapes Through the Sentiment Analysis of Inuit Place Names
Landscape archaeologists have debated for decades over the use of phenomenology as an archaeological method. The analysis of place names has formed an important part of landscape approaches. Sentiment analysis is a natural language processing computer software that evaluates digital texts for negati...
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ftunivcalgary:oai:prism.ucalgary.ca:1880/106250 2023-08-27T04:06:31+02:00 Perceiving Arctic Landscapes Through the Sentiment Analysis of Inuit Place Names Hughes, Colleen Dawson, Peter Oetelaar, Gerald Levy, Richard 2018-01-03 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/1880/106250 https://doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/5248 en eng Arts University of Calgary Hughes, C. (2018). Perceiving Arctic Landscapes Through the Sentiment Analysis of Inuit Place Names (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/5248 http://hdl.handle.net/1880/106250 University of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission. Landscape Archaeology Sentiment Analysis Phenomenology Place Names Caribou Inuit Anthropology Archaeology Anthropology--Cultural master thesis 2018 ftunivcalgary https://doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/5248 2023-08-06T06:22:54Z Landscape archaeologists have debated for decades over the use of phenomenology as an archaeological method. The analysis of place names has formed an important part of landscape approaches. Sentiment analysis is a natural language processing computer software that evaluates digital texts for negative, neutral, and positive opinions and emotions. This software was chosen to inform a determination of how and if a phenomenological method could be achieved within landscape archaeology through the sentiment analysis of place names. Sentiment analysis was used to analyse over 600 Inuit place name descriptions from the Kivalliq Region in Nunavut. I explore how analyzing place names using sentiment analysis can be used as a way to understand the phenomenology of surrounding landscapes. The results of the analysis indicate that some place names reflect areas on the landscape which illicit strong positive and negative opinions and feelings. The polarity of these opinions is often associated with events that can be associated with hardship and tragedy, as well as success, wellness, and happiness. While archaeologists have used place names to place archaeological sites into a context and as a site prediction method, sentiment analysis shows little or no correlation between positive or negative opinions about the occupation of archaeological sites. This has significant implications for the use of toponymic archaeological interpretation. Master Thesis Arctic Arctic inuit Kivalliq Nunavut PRISM - University of Calgary Digital Repository Arctic Nunavut |
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Landscape archaeologists have debated for decades over the use of phenomenology as an archaeological method. The analysis of place names has formed an important part of landscape approaches. Sentiment analysis is a natural language processing computer software that evaluates digital texts for negative, neutral, and positive opinions and emotions. This software was chosen to inform a determination of how and if a phenomenological method could be achieved within landscape archaeology through the sentiment analysis of place names. Sentiment analysis was used to analyse over 600 Inuit place name descriptions from the Kivalliq Region in Nunavut. I explore how analyzing place names using sentiment analysis can be used as a way to understand the phenomenology of surrounding landscapes. The results of the analysis indicate that some place names reflect areas on the landscape which illicit strong positive and negative opinions and feelings. The polarity of these opinions is often associated with events that can be associated with hardship and tragedy, as well as success, wellness, and happiness. While archaeologists have used place names to place archaeological sites into a context and as a site prediction method, sentiment analysis shows little or no correlation between positive or negative opinions about the occupation of archaeological sites. This has significant implications for the use of toponymic archaeological interpretation. |
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Perceiving Arctic Landscapes Through the Sentiment Analysis of Inuit Place Names |
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Perceiving Arctic Landscapes Through the Sentiment Analysis of Inuit Place Names |
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Perceiving Arctic Landscapes Through the Sentiment Analysis of Inuit Place Names |
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Perceiving Arctic Landscapes Through the Sentiment Analysis of Inuit Place Names |
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Perceiving Arctic Landscapes Through the Sentiment Analysis of Inuit Place Names |
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Hughes, C. (2018). Perceiving Arctic Landscapes Through the Sentiment Analysis of Inuit Place Names (Unpublished master's thesis). University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/5248 http://hdl.handle.net/1880/106250 |
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University of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission. |
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