검색 상세

Aligning Fragments : Characterizing Art Critical Discourse in Postwar South Korea Using Natural Language Processing Methods

초록

This thesis aims to discover and analyze concepts and documents representative of the discursive environment of the postwar South Korean art world, employing several tools used in Natural Language Processing (NLP) in order to come to a clearer understanding of the development of the art world in the decades following the Korean War. Using nearly three hundred thousand newspaper articles published between 1945 and 1979 in the Chosun Ilbo, the Dong-a Ilbo, and the JoongAng, this research takes a macroscopic view of the world of arts and culture in postwar South Korea, specifically on the effect of the interaction between foreign trends and local identity. Past academic literature focusing on the Korean art world at this time has primarily used historical and occasionally social scientific methods. Although NLP and computational linguistic methodology are still being introduced for use in the humanities and social sciences, this research presents a set of simple modifications to existing algorithms to bolster their efficacy and accessibility for historical Korean corpus-based research. Using quantitative methods to support a traditional qualitative approach, this thesis characterizes the decades following liberation as a continual process of mediation and re-alignment as South Korea becomes increasingly engaged with international presence. Our findings step away from narratives of the postwar era emphasizing the triumphant, rebellious spirit of the new generation over the corrupt, established generation of artists. Instead, by tracing discursive lineages spanning several decades, we elaborate on the tensions experienced by groups in and out of the art world in postwar South Korea created by the unavoidable need to participate in and rely on constantly changing and failing systems.

more

목차

Introduction 1
Literature Review 4
Non-Figurative Abstract Art 5
Colonial Korea 7
Aengporeumel, 1956-1959 8
The Gukjeon, 1960-1966 13
Late 1960s and Onward 17
Linguistic Motivations 18
Methodology 24
Data Collection and Preprocessing 25
FastText 28
Diachronic FastText Embeddings 30
Hanja Word Prediction and BART Pretraining 31
Topic Modeling and TF-IDF 33
Term Frequencies and Collocations 37
Results and Discussion 39
Informel-Centered Discourse in Diachronic Word Embeddings 39
Visualizing Gwanjeon and Minjeon Through Time 44
Revealing Collective Anxieties with Document Filtering 52
1940s 55
1950s 56
1960s 59
1970s 62
Concluding Remarks and Future Work 66
References 68

more
반출 Meta View 목록