{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/friendships-rivalries-and-trysts","title":"Friendships, Rivalries, and Trysts: Characterizing Relations between Ideas in Texts","arxiv_id":"1704.07828","date":"2017-04-25","proceeding":"ACL 2017 7","authors":["Chenhao Tan","Dallas Card","Noah A. Smith"],"abstract":"Understanding how ideas relate to each other is a fundamental question in\nmany domains, ranging from intellectual history to public communication.\nBecause ideas are naturally embedded in texts, we propose the first framework\nto systematically characterize the relations between ideas based on their\noccurrence in a corpus of documents, independent of how these ideas are\nrepresented. Combining two statistics --- cooccurrence within documents and\nprevalence correlation over time --- our approach reveals a number of different\nways in which ideas can cooperate and compete. For instance, two ideas can\nclosely track each other's prevalence over time, and yet rarely cooccur, almost\nlike a \"cold war\" scenario. We observe that pairwise cooccurrence and\nprevalence correlation exhibit different distributions. We further demonstrate\nthat our approach is able to uncover intriguing relations between ideas through\nin-depth case studies on news articles and research papers.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1704.07828v2","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1704.07828v2.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"friendships-rivalries-and-trysts","repo_url":"https://github.com/Noahs-ARK/idea_relations","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"articles","task_name":"Articles"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=1704.07828","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}