EXALT: Excavating Archaeological Literature

The amount of text archaeologists create has been growing at an ever increasing rate, making it difficult and time-consuming to find relevant information in this big data. Currently, we can only search through the metadata of archaeological documents. This metadata is often incomplete, making searching inaccurate, and manual reading of full documents is required after the search to find relevant information. Text mining and semantic search techniques have become available over the last decades, which can provide a computational way to access information from this wealth of valuable but underused literature.