Navigating through 200 Years of Historical Newspapers
Abstract
This paper describes the processes which led to the creation of an innovative interface to access a digital archive composed of two Swiss newspapers, namely Gazette de Lausanne (1798–1998) and Journal de Gen`eve (1826–1998). Based on several textual processing steps, including lexical indexation, n-grams computation and named entity recognition, a general purpose web-based application was designed and implemented ; it allows a large variety of users (e.g. historians, journalists, linguists and the general public) to explore different facets of about 4 million press articles spanning an almost 200 hundred years period.Details
- Creators
- Yannick Rochat; Frédéric Kaplan; Cyril Bornet; Vincent Buntinx; Maud Ehrmann
- Institutions
- Date
- 2016-09-01 00:00:00 +0000
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- Publication Type
- paper
- License
- CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT
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