Computational conceptual history of scientific concepts: From early digital methods to LLMs

In three linesSurvey paper positioning LLMs within the longer history of computational approaches to concept analysis in history, philosophy, and sociology of science. Examines what LLMs add to prior methods (early digital methods, distributional approaches, lexical semantic change detection) and persistent methodological challenges: corpus construction, operationalization, evaluation and interpretation.

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