ONTONOMIC

Ontonomic is a UK-based research consultancy specialising in:

  • The development of sentence-level semantic similarity methods for text and concept analysis.
  • Actor network analysis.

Semantic similarity methods developed by Ontonomic include:

  • Multilingual content analysis and classification.
  • Topic discovery.
  • Diffusion of topics across time series of documents.
  • Analysis of conceptual ecologies.

Corpora studied include peace process documents (peace agreements, implementation reports, and mediation documents), national security documents, national constitutions, constitutional court decisions, and research ethics documentation.

Actor network analysis includes methods for detecting the generation and fragmentation of actor clusters over time, superimposition of actor networks from difference spaces, hypergraphs, and novel visualisation methods.

We are currently working on a synthesis of the topic discovery and actor network strands.