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Book chapter
Text Meets Space: Geographic Content Extraction, Resolution and Information Retrieval
In this half-day tutorial, we will review the basic concepts of, methods for, and applications of geographic information retrieval, also showing some possible applications in fields such as the digital humanities. The tutorial is organized in four parts. First we introduce some basic ideas about geography, and demonstrate why text...Leidner, Jochen ; Martins, Bruno ; McDonough, Katherine ; Purves, Ross
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Book chapter
How we got here
Wilson, Daniel C.S.
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Learning object
Computer Vision for the Humanities: An Introduction to Deep Learning for Image Classification (Part 2)
This is the second of a two-part lesson introducing deep learning based computer vision methods for humanities research. This lesson digs deeper into the details of training a deep learning based computer vision model. It covers some challenges one may face due to the training data used and the importance...Strien, Daniel van ; Beelen, Kaspar ; Wevers, Melvin ; Smits, Thomas ; McDonough, Katherine
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Computer Vision for the Humanities: An Introduction to Deep Learning for Image Classification (Part 1)
This is the first of a two-part lesson introducing deep learning based computer vision methods for humanities research. Using a dataset of historical newspaper advertisements and the fastai Python library, the lesson walks through the pipeline of training a computer vision model to perform image classification.Strien, Daniel van ; Beelen, Kaspar ; Wevers, Melvin ; Smits, Thomas ; McDonough, Katherine
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Models for MapReader ACM SIGSPATIAL 2023 Geohumanities Workshop paper
Collection of fine-tuned models created during research published in Kasra Hosseini, Daniel C. S. Wilson, Kaspar Beelen, and Katherine McDonough. 2022. MapReader: a computer vision pipeline for the semantic exploration of maps at scale. In Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Humanities (GeoHumanities '22). Association for...Hosseini, Kasra ; Beelen, Kaspar ; McDonough, Katherine ; Wilson, Daniel C. S.
computational humanities, computer vision, maps, models, and image classification
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Abstract
Using smart annotations to map the geography of newspapers
Geographic information is a key component in the description of collection objects, and yet its format is often unsuited for use with methods of geographic analysis. Catalogue entries are often inconsistent, in plain text, and without geographic coordinates (much less coordinates linked to authority records). Georesolution of the relevant fields...Ryan, Yann ; Coll Ardanuy, Mariona ; van Strien, Daniel ; Hosseini, Kasra ; Beelen, Kaspar …
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Warrington Examiner
Warrington Examiner (1869-1901) was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines project.British Library
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Assessing the Impact of OCR Quality on Downstream NLP Tasks
A growing volume of heritage data is being digitized and made available as text via optical character recognition (OCR). Scholars and libraries are increasingly using OCR-generated text for retrieval and analysis. However, the process of creating text through OCR introduces varying degrees of error to the text. The impact of... -
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Northern Weekly Gazette
Northern Weekly Gazette was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Defoe: A Spark-Based Toolbox for Analysing Digital Historical Textual Data
This work presents defoe, a new scalable and portable digital eScience toolbox that enables historical research. It allows for running text mining queries across large datasets, such as historical newspapers and books in parallel via Apache Spark. It handles queries against collections that comprise several XML schemas and physical representations.... -
Conference paper (published)
Living Machines: A study of atypical animacy
This paper proposes a new approach to animacy detection, the task of determining whether an entity is represented as animate in a text. In particular, this work is focused on atypical animacy and examines the scenario in which typically inanimate objects, specifically machines, are given animate attributes. To address it,...Coll Ardanuy, Mariona ; Nanni, Federico ; Beelen, Kaspar ; Hosseini, Kasra ; Ahnert, Ruth …
nineteenth-century English, living machines, BERT, and animacy
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Conference paper (unpublished)
A Deep Learning Approach to Geographical Candidate Selection through Toponym Matching
Recognizing toponyms and resolving them to their real-world referents is required for providing advanced semantic access to textual data. This process is often hindered by the high degree of variation in toponyms. Candidate selection is the task of identifying the potential entities that can be referred to by a toponym... -
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Contextualizing Victorian Newspapers
Beelen, Kaspar ; Ahnert, Ruth ; Beavan, David ; Coll Ardanuy, Mariona ; Hosseini, Kasra …
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Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. (1847 - 1890) was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Liverpool Weekly Courier
Liverpool Weekly Courier was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser
Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. (1858 - 1918) was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Central Glamorgan Gazette
Central Glamorgan Gazette was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette
Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Denton and Haughton Examiner
Denton and Haughton Examiner was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines project. Variant titles are 1873-74 The Denton, Haughton, & District Weekly News. 1874-75 Denton & Haughton Weekly News, and Audenshaw, Hooley Hill, and Dukinfield Advertiser, 1875-78 Denton Examiner, Audenshaw,...British Library
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Cradley Heath & Stourbridge Observer
Cradley Heath & Stourbridge Observer. (1864 - 1888) was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser
Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. (1863 - 1914) was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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The Runcorn Examiner
The Runcorn Examiner (1870-1954) was a weekly newspaper and years 1870-1920 have been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines project.British Library
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Weymouth Telegram
Weymouth Telegram (1860 - 1901) was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines project.British Library
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Conference paper (published)
DeezyMatch: A Flexible Deep Learning Approach to Fuzzy String Matching
We present DeezyMatch, a free, open-source software library written in Python for fuzzy string matching and candidate ranking. Its pair classifier supports various deep neural network architectures for training new classifiers and for fine-tuning a pretrained model, which paves the way for transfer learning in fuzzy string matching. This approach...Hosseini, Kasra ; Nanni, Federico ; Coll Ardanuy, Mariona
Natural Language Processing, string matching, toponym matching, machine learning, and digital humanities
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Conference paper (published)
Resolving places, past and present: toponym resolution in historical British newspapers using multiple resources
Newspapers and their metadata are richly geographical, not only in their distribution but also their content. Attending to these spatial features is a prerequisite in newspaper research. Following other projects to have geoparsed place names in newspapers, we describe our approach to linking historical geospatial information in text to real-world...Coll Ardanuy, Mariona ; McDonough, Katherine ; Krause, Amrey ; Wilson, Daniel C.S. ; Hosseini, Kasra …
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Ordnance Survey Old / First series England and Wales 1:63360 (georeferenced sheet images)
Map sheet images for the Ordnance Survey Old Series / First Series England and Wales 1:63360, georeferenced and cropped at the neatlike (can be viewed together as a seamless composite). Geotiff format. The original (ungeoreferenced) sheet images can be found at: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ordnance_Survey_Old/First_series_England_and_Wales_1:63360_(full_sheets). The sheets were georeferenced by relating the sheet...Vane, Olivia
England, First Series, Old Series, maps, Ordnance Survey, and Wales
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Widnes Examiner
Widnes Examiner (1876-1920) was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines project.British Library
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Diachronic and diatopic word embeddings from newspapers digitised by the British Library (1830-1889): North and South England
Diachronic word embeddings (decade-level) trained with Word2Vec (via Gensim) on different geographic subcorpora of the Heritage Made Digital British and the Living with Machines historical newspaper collections: - North England (north.zip) - South England (south.zip) At the moment, for each subcorpus, Word2Vec models are available for each decade in the...Pedrazzini, Nilo ; McGillivray, Barbara
historical semantics, diachronic embeddings, late modern English, word embeddings, word vectors, word2vec, and diatopic embeddings
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Decade-level Word2Vec models from automatically transcribed 19th-century newspapers digitised by the British Library (1800-1919)
Word embeddings trained on a 4.2-billion-word corpus of 19th-century British newspapers using Word2Vec and specific parameters. The embeddings are divided into periods of ten years each. Unlike those in this repository, these were not aligned and OCR errors skimmed from the vocabulary. See related GitHub repository for the full documentation:...Pedrazzini, Nilo
historical semantics, British newspapers, word embeddings, word vectors, word2vec, and Late Modern English
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Living with Machines Zooniverse Participant Survey
Summary results from a survey of contributors to Living with Machines Zooniverse crowdsourcing projects. Responses were received between 24 May and 13 June 2022. We designed the survey so that we could align our reporting with two other audience / participant research groups. Firstly, we used the demographic categories that...British Library
online volunteering, digital participation, citizen science, citizen history, questionnaire, crowdsourcing, survey, and audience research
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Dataset for Toponym Resolution in Nineteenth-Century English Newspapers
We present a new dataset (version 2) for the task of toponym resolution in digitised historical newspapers in English. It consists of 455 annotated articles from newspapers based in four different locations in England (Manchester, Ashton-under-Lyne, Poole and Dorchester), published between 1780 and 1870. The articles have been manually annotated...Coll Ardanuy, Mariona ; Beavan, David ; Beelen, Kaspar ; Hosseini, Kasra ; Lawrence, Jon …
nineteenth-century English, dataset, newspapers, toponym resolution, and geographic information retrieval
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Diachronic word embeddings from 19th-century newspapers digitised by the British Library (1800-1919)
Word vectors related to the paper "Machines in the media: semantic change in the lexicon of mechanization in 19th-century British newspapers" by Nilo Pedrazzini and Barbara McGillivray (2022). The embeddings were trained on a 4.2-billion-word corpus of 19th-century British newspapers using Word2Vec and specific parameters. The embeddings are divided into...Pedrazzini, Nilo ; McGillivray, Barbara
historical semantics, word-vectors, late-modern-english, newspapers, diachronic-embeddings, and word2vec
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Software
Living-with-machines/MapReader: End of LwM
This release marks the end of the current funding for MapReader during the Living with Machines (LwM) project. @kasra-hosseini @andrewphilipsmith @rwood-97 @kmcdono2 @dcsw2 @kallewesterling @kasparvonbeelenHosseini, Kasra ; Wood, Rosie ; Smith, Andy ; McDonough, Katie ; Wilson, Daniel C. S. …
computer vision and maps
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The Newspaper Press Directory (1846-1920) - enriched and structured version
Mitchell's Newspaper Press Directories contained an almost complete list of newspapers published in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. It was published regularly from 1846 onwards and provided a detailed description of the newspaper landscape over time. This version contains a structured, tabular representation of the directories (as CSV or Excel...C. Mitchell and Co. ; British Library
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The Newspaper Press Directory (1846-1880)
Newspaper directories produced and published annually in contemporary 19th Britain by advertising agent Charles Mitchell. Newspapers listed primarily listed in alphabetical order of the town the newspaper where the title was published. Information for each title included: features connected with the district such as population and trade; principal towns in...C. Mitchell and Co. ; British Library
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The Newspaper Press Directory (1881-1920)
Newspaper directories produced and published annually in contemporary 19th Britain by advertising agent Charles Mitchell. Newspapers listed primarily listed in alphabetical order of the town the newspaper where the title was published. Information for each title included: features connected with the district such as population and trade; principal towns in...C. Mitchell and Co. ; British Library
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Living with Machines alpha and beta Zooniverse 'accident' task data
Data created through crowdsourcing tasks hosted on the Zooniverse platform. Members of the public were asked to look at a selection of articles from 19th century newspapers that mentioned machines and decide if they described an industrial accident. A further task asked participants to transcribe personal, organisational and place names...Zooniverse volunteers
crowdsourcing, digital history, citizen history, Living with Machines, newspapers, and digital humanities
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Stretford and Urmston Examiner
Stretford and Urmston Examiner. (1879 - 1880) was a weekly newspaper which has been digitised by the British Library for the Living with Machines projectBritish Library
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Living Machines atypical animacy dataset
Atypical animacy detection dataset, based on nineteenth-century sentences in English extracted from an open dataset of nineteenth-century books digitized by the British Library (available via https://doi.org/10.21250/db14, British Library Labs, 2014). This dataset contains 598 sentences containing mentions of machines. Each sentence has been annotated according to the animacy and humanness... -
Journal article
Design Choices for Productive, Secure, Data-Intensive Research at Scale in the Cloud
We present a policy and process framework for secure environments for productive data science research projects at scale, by combining prevailing data security threat and risk profiles into five sensitivity tiers, and, at each tier, specifying recommended policies for data classification, data ingress, software ingress, data egress, user access, user...Arenas, Diego ; Atkins, Jon ; Austin, Claire ; Beavan, David ; Cabrejas Egea, Alvaro …
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Journal article
A Dataset for Toponym Resolution in Nineteenth-Century English Newspapers
We present a new dataset for the task of toponym resolution in digitized historical newspapers in English. It consists of 343 annotated articles from newspapers based in four different locations in England (Manchester, Ashton-under-Lyne, Poole and Dorchester), published between 1780 and 1870. The articles have been manually annotated with mentions... -
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Babbage among the insurers: Big 19th-century data and the public interest
This article examines life assurance and the politics of ‘big data’ in mid-19th-century Britain. The datasets generated by life assurance companies were vast archives of information about human longevity. Actuaries distilled these archives into mortality tables – immensely valuable tools for predicting mortality and so pricing risk. The status of...Wilson, Daniel C.S.
big data, Thomas Rowe Edmonds, Charles Babbage, public interest, and insurance