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Developing geographically oriented NLP approaches to sixteenth–century historical documents: digging into early colonial Mexico

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Developing geographically oriented NLP approaches to sixteenth–century historical documents: digging into early colonial Mexico. / Jiménez Badillo, Diego; Murrieta-Flores, Patricia; Martins, Bruno et al.
In: Digital Humanities Quarterly, Vol. 14, No. 4, 31.12.2020.

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Jiménez Badillo, D, Murrieta-Flores, P, Martins, B, Gregory, I, Favila-Vázquez, M & Liceras-Garrido, R 2020, 'Developing geographically oriented NLP approaches to sixteenth–century historical documents: digging into early colonial Mexico', Digital Humanities Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 4. <http://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/14/4/000490/000490.html>

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Jiménez Badillo, D., Murrieta-Flores, P., Martins, B., Gregory, I., Favila-Vázquez, M., & Liceras-Garrido, R. (2020). Developing geographically oriented NLP approaches to sixteenth–century historical documents: digging into early colonial Mexico. Digital Humanities Quarterly, 14(4). http://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/14/4/000490/000490.html

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Jiménez Badillo D, Murrieta-Flores P, Martins B, Gregory I, Favila-Vázquez M, Liceras-Garrido R. Developing geographically oriented NLP approaches to sixteenth–century historical documents: digging into early colonial Mexico. Digital Humanities Quarterly. 2020 Dec 31;14(4).

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Jiménez Badillo, Diego ; Murrieta-Flores, Patricia ; Martins, Bruno et al. / Developing geographically oriented NLP approaches to sixteenth–century historical documents : digging into early colonial Mexico. In: Digital Humanities Quarterly. 2020 ; Vol. 14, No. 4.

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