Nibbling at text: Identifying discourses on Europe in a large collection of historical newspapers using topic modelling

Milan Lange, van; Estelle Bunout

Nibbling at text: Identifying discourses on Europe in a large collection of historical newspapers using topic modelling

NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide studies

Research output: Working paper/discussion paper › Web article › Professional

Abstract

How can computer-assisted methods help us to solve problems that are fundamental to historical research? In a series of two blog posts we discuss a research pilot that aims to identify anti-modernist discourses on Europe in historical Swiss newspapers from the period 1939-1945.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 21 Jun 2019

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Name	C2DH Website

Keywords

topic modelling
digital history
hermeneutics
historiography
heuristics

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Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH)
Milan Lange, van (Visiting researcher)
01 Feb 2019 → 30 Apr 2019
Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting researcher

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Nibbling at text: Identifying discourses on Europe in a large collection of historical newspapers using topic modelling

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