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Developing geographically oriented NLP approaches to sixteenth–century historical documents: digging into early colonial Mexico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Developing geographically oriented NLP approaches to sixteenth–century historical documents: digging into early colonial Mexico.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, 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 / Developing geographically oriented NLP approaches to sixteenth–century historical documents : digging into early colonial Mexico.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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title = "Developing geographically oriented NLP approaches to sixteenth–century historical documents: digging into early colonial Mexico",
abstract = "This article introduces an ongoing Digital Humanities project aimed at leveraging the benefits of Natural Language Processing, Corpus Linguistics, Machine Learning, and Spatial Analysis for advancing the computational analysis of vast historical corpora. As a case study, the project concentrates on the Relaciones Geogr{\'a}ficas de la Nueva Espa{\~n}a (1577–1585), one of the key corpora for understanding the early colonial period of Mexico.Using a computer–assisted methodology called Geographical Text Analysis (GTA), the project offers automatic means for parsing historical texts and the markup of words referring both to place names (toponyms) and analytical concepts that are then linked to their geographic locations. Adding geospatial intelligence to the parsing of texts allows exploring hidden geographies and narratives in the historic corpus. The article provides a general overview of the corpus, describes the GTA methodology step by step, and reports on the progress achieved so far.",
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