The Literary System of the Iberian Worlds Through the Lens of Criticometrics
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Abstract
The Iberian worlds are constituted by the group of people whose culture and history were forged when the matrix of the Mediterranean world was projected through the Portuguese and Spanish expansion.The populations that are protagonists of this process (Europeans, Africans, Americans, and Asians) and their descendants share a common experience and a way of conceiving the world (Ruiz Ibáñez y Mazín Gómez 2021:2). 1 The purpose of our study is to map the literatures that belong to the above defined Iberian worlds, in order to reveal the complex relations that the national literatures that constitute these worlds have developed through time.To this effect, this research is located at the convergence of two phenomena: the conceptual turn from comparative literature into world literature (Damrosch 2014;Gupta 2009;Saussy 2006), and the emergence of big data in the humanities (Boyd and Crawford 2012; Mayer-Schönberger and Cukier 2013; Schreibman, Siemens, and Unsworth 2004, 2016).Specifically, in this paper, we will illustrate how this availability of massive amounts of information for the humanitiesunimaginable not long agowill allow us to analyze the configuration of the literary system of the Iberian worlds.We would like to emphasize that, in this research, we modify the usual topdown viewpoint to introduce a bottom-up perspective.To achieve this, we use the methodological approach of criticometrics (Ferrer 2011), that we have developed based on the exploitation of digital databases and which makes it possible to articulate theoretical concepts with empirical research.Instead of imposing pre-established criteria, this approach stems from the observation of thousands of Note: This study draws on research funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, granted to the CRSH 435-2018-1115 project « Les études littéraires et les nouveaux observables de l'ère numérique : le système de la littérature mondiale de l'après-guerre à nos jours ». "Los mundos ibéricos están constituidos por el conjunto de personas cuya cultura e historia se forjaron cuando la matriz del mundo mediterráneo se proyectó mediante la expansión portuguesa y española.Las poblaciones protagonistas de ese proceso (europeos, africanos, americanos y asiáticos) y sus descendientes comparten una experiencia común y una forma de concebir el mundo" (Ruiz Ibáñez y Mazín Gómez 2021: 2).We translate.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.008 | 0.015 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.025 | 0.019 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.026 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.022 | 0.010 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".