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

Milan Lange, van; Ralf Futselaar

Debating Evil: Using Word Embeddings to Analyze 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	147-153
Number of pages	6
Publication status	Published - 20 Sept 2018
Event	Conference on Language Technologies and Digital Humanities 2018 - Fakulteta za elektrotehniko, Univerza v Ljubljani, Ljubliana, Slovenia Duration: 20 Sept 2018 → 21 Sept 2018 http://www.sdjt.si/jtdh-2018/

Conference

Conference	Conference on Language Technologies and Digital Humanities 2018
Abbreviated title	JTDH 2018
Country/Territory	Slovenia
City	Ljubliana
Period	20/09/2018 → 21/09/2018
Internet address	http://www.sdjt.si/jtdh-2018/

Keywords

penal history
digital humanities
word embedding models
language technologies
methodology
hermeneutics
war criminals
parliamentary history
discourse analysis

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1 Article
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.
Research output: PhD Thesis › PhD thesis

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Debating Evil: Using Word Embeddings to Analyse Parliamentary Debates on War Criminals in the Netherlands
Lange, van, M. & Futselaar, R., 07 Jun 2019, In: Prispevki za novejšo zgodovino / Inštitut za zgodovino delavskega gibanja. 59, 1, p. 140-156 17 p.
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Lange, van, M., & Futselaar, R. (2018). Debating Evil: Using Word Embeddings to Analyze Parliamentary Debates on War Criminals in The Netherlands. 147-153. Paper presented at Conference on Language Technologies and Digital Humanities 2018, Ljubliana, Slovenia. http://www.sdjt.si/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/JTDH-2018_Lange-et-al_Debating-evil-Using-Word-Embeddings-to-Analyze-Parliamentary-Debates-on-War-Criminals-in-The-Netherlands.pdf

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Debating Evil: Using Word Embeddings to Analyze 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

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

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