Topic-specific corpus building: A step towards a representative newspaper corpus on the topic of return migration using text mining methods – Journal of Digital History

Topic-specific corpus building: A step towards a representative newspaper corpus on the topic of return migration using text mining methods – Journal of Digital History

Introduction: In this post, we highlight a new publication venue for Historian Digital Humanists, the Journal of Digital History where digital scholarship is presented in three layers: narrative, epistemic and data layers. These publications are therefore complex digital scholarly outputs that open a bigger window on DH research and enable readers to follow along the whole research process, execute or eventually even reproduce certain steps. We showcase this innovative publication method though highlighting a methodology paper from the first issue, Sarah Oberbichler’s and Eva Pfanzelter’s Topic-specific corpus building: A step towards a representative newspaper corpus on the topic of return migration using text mining methods.

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