A Visual Representation of Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
This work addresses a domain-specific problem in digital humanities and philosophy of language, offering a tool for cross-linguistic analysis of philosophical texts.
The authors tackled the problem of analyzing Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus across languages by compiling a multilingual parallel corpus and computing similarity measures between propositions, resulting in a visual network representation of relations for different languages.
In this paper we present a data visualization method together with its potential usefulness in digital humanities and philosophy of language. We compile a multilingual parallel corpus from different versions of Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, including the original in German and translations into English, Spanish, French, and Russian. Using this corpus, we compute a similarity measure between propositions and render a visual network of relations for different languages.