Sinai Rusinek (University of Haifa)
The Emic, the Etic and the Analytic: Classifying the 19th-century newspaper
How did 19th-century editors organize and serve the texts in their newspapers? How do we categorize these texts today, and what would computational analysis reveal about these divisions?
Classification rose as a requirement and a challenge in a workflow of creating a historical Hebrew newspaper research corpus. In order to address these challenges, I made use of three complementing text analytical approaches: stylometry, topic modelling and keyword analysis. In my talk, I will share the workflow and some preliminary results, and discuss the questions that arise and tensions that are revealed between historical and contemporary systems of classification.
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