2. Problem When you’re visiting a new place your time is
limited
There is too much to see
You need to make a choice
3. If a visitor wants to see only landscapes and plants,
there should be a way to choose a subset of museum
objects that makes the most of their time
4. ”This painting was said by him to have been inspired by
the work of Li Cheng, a tenth-century landscape artist.
Its spare, rather dry brushwork again repeats the
deliberately simple, austere quality that is the feature
of many so-called literati paintings. Hanging scroll.
Landscape. Bare trees in winter, with reference to Li
Cheng (919-67) and a river. Painted in a very dry style.
Inscriptions and seals. Ink on paper.”
Scraped 100 000 curatorial descriptions of paintings
and drawings from British Museum’s database
5. ”this painting be say by him to have be inspire by the
work of li cheng , a tenth - century landscape artist .
its spare , rather dry brushwork again repeat the
deliberately simple , austere quality that be the feature
of many so - call literati painting . hang scroll .
landscape . bare tree in winter , with reference to li
cheng ( 919 - 67 ) and a river . paint in a very dry style
. inscription and seal . ink on paper.”
Tokenizing and Lemmatizing
Scraped 100 000 curatorial descriptions of paintings
and drawings from British Museum’s database
6. Tokenizing and Lemmatizing
Count Vectorizer + TFIDF
Scraped 100 000 curatorial descriptions of paintings
and drawings from British Museum’s database
7. Tokenizing and Lemmatizing
Count Vectorizer + TFIDF
Latent Semantic
Analysis (PCA)
Scraped 100 000 curatorial descriptions of paintings
and drawings from British Museum’s database
8. Tokenizing and Lemmatizing
Count Vectorizer + TFIDF
Latent Semantic
Analysis (PCA)
Cosine similarity
Scraped 100 000 curatorial descriptions of paintings
and drawings from British Museum’s database
17. Dataset 1
Train a
model
Dataset 2
Train a
model
Dataset 3
Train a
model
K-fold cross
validation to
verify the
model using
Jaccard index
“landscape”
18. About me
PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience (NYU)
VanGo web app: vango.hopto.org
Zuzanna Klyszejko
