Debating Evil: Using Word Embeddings to Analyse Parliamentary Debates on War Criminals in the Netherlands

Milan Lange, van; Ralf Futselaar

Debating Evil: Using Word Embeddings to Analyse Parliamentary Debates on War Criminals in the Netherlands

NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide studies

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Abstract

We are proposing a method to investigate changes in historical discourse by using large bodies of text and word embedding models. As a case study, we investigate discussions in Dutch Parliament about the punishment of war criminals in the period 1945-1975. We will demonstrate how word embedding models, trained with Google’s Word2Vec algorithm, can be used to trace historical developments in parliamentary vocabulary through time.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	140-156
Number of pages	17
Journal	Prispevki za novejšo zgodovino / Inštitut za zgodovino delavskega gibanja
Volume	59
Issue number	1
Publication status	Published - 07 Jun 2019

Keywords

War Criminals
penal history
Parliamentary History
Word Embedding Models,
Word2Vec

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http://ojs.inz.si/pnz/article/view/322Licence: CC BY

1 Paper
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1 PhD thesis

Emotional Imprints: A Computer-assisted Analysis of War-related Emotions in Dutch Parliamentary Debates, 1945–1989
Lange, van, M., 10 Dec 2021, Utrecht: Utrecht University. 261 p.
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Code and data repository 'Debating Evil'
Lange, van, M. & Futselaar, R. (ed.), 15 May 2019
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Debating Evil: Using Word Embeddings to Analyze Parliamentary Debates on War Criminals in The Netherlands
Lange, van, M. & Futselaar, R., 20 Sept 2018, p. 147-153. 6 p.
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Debating Evil: Using Word Embeddings to Analyse Parliamentary Debates on War Criminals in the Netherlands

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Emotional Imprints: A Computer-assisted Analysis of War-related Emotions in Dutch Parliamentary Debates, 1945–1989

Code and data repository 'Debating Evil'

Debating Evil: Using Word Embeddings to Analyze Parliamentary Debates on War Criminals in The Netherlands

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