Introduction

SemanticLayerTools

Collects tools to create semantic layers in the socio-epistemic networks framework. Source material can be any structured corpus with metadata of authors, time, and at least one text column.

Documentation is available on ReadTheDocs.

Part of the code was reviewed by Itay Zandbank, thank you.

Installation

tl;dr Use pip

pip install semanticlayertools

Consider using a clean virtual environment to keep your main packages separated. Create a new virtual environment and install the package

python3 -m venv env
source env/bin/activate
pip install semanticlayertools

To use some sentence embedding utility functions please install with the embeddml option

pip install semanticlayertools[embeddml]

Testing

Tests can be run by installing the dev requirements and running tox.

pip install semanticlayertools[dev]
tox

Building documentation

The documentation is build using sphinx. Install with the dev option and run

pip install semanticlayertools[dev]
tox -e docs

Funding information

The development is part of the research project ModelSEN

Socio-epistemic networks: Modelling Historical Knowledge Processes,

in Department I of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany (Grant No. 01 UG2131).