History of Ideas?

 (This was a FB post from 31st October 2013. I still want to solve this problem, I still like Banksy. But now I want to leave FB as soon as I can. So it makes sense to copy previous old posts in this blog.)

I have a problem that would be nice to see someone helping to solve... 

Look at this paper: Studying the History of Ideas Using Topic Models 

http://aclweb.org/anthology//D/D08/D08-1038.pdf

The guys study the development of ideas in a scientific field (computational linguistics) over time (25 years) using the abstracts of the papers published in the field. Now, wouldn't it be great to see the same  for category theory? 

 

I'm particularly interested because I just wrote a paper with Andrei Rodin, `Elements of Categorical Logic: Fifty Years Later' celebrating the 50th anniversary of Bill Lawvere's PhD thesis.

I think a study of topics in category theory would show `n-category theory' rising sharply in importance, recently.

 

There is, of course, the first issue of getting the papers. Apparently some 15 hundred abstracts is enough though...  From TAC we have some 800 or thereabouts. Maybe some of our friends will get interested? 

It would be nice.

(31st October 2013)