How to read the 52.000 pages of the British Journal of Psychiatry? A collaborative approach to source exploration

Historians are confronted with an overabundance of sources that require new perspectives and tools to make use of large-scale corpora. Based on a use case from the history of psychiatry this paper describes the work of an interdisciplinary team to tackle these challenges by combining different NLP t...

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Published inJournal of data mining and digital humanities Vol. HistoInformatics; no. HistoInformatics
Main Authors Andersen, Eva, Biryukov, Maria, Kalyakin, Roman, Wieneke, Lars
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published INRIA 18.12.2020
Nicolas Turenne
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[scco.comp]cognitive science/computer science
[shs.hist]humanities and social sciences/history
Cognitive science
Computer science
History
Humanities and Social Sciences
history of psychiatry
visualisations
United Kingdom
text mining
topic modelling
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Summary:Historians are confronted with an overabundance of sources that require new perspectives and tools to make use of large-scale corpora. Based on a use case from the history of psychiatry this paper describes the work of an interdisciplinary team to tackle these challenges by combining different NLP tools with new visual interfaces that foster the exploration of the corpus. The paper highlights several research challenges in the preparation and processing of the corpus and sketches new insights for historical research that were gathered due to the use of the tools.
ISSN:2416-5999
2416-5999
DOI:10.46298/jdmdh.6077