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- Hengchen, Simon, 1988, et al.
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A data-driven approach to studying changing vocabularies in historical newspaper collections
- 2021
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Ingår i: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 2055-7671 .- 2055-768X. ; 36:Supplement 2, s. 109-126
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Nation and nationhood are among the most frequently studied concepts in the field of intellectual history. At the same time, the word ‘nation’ and its historical usage are very vague. The aim in this article was to develop a data-driven method using dependency parsing and neural word embeddings to clarify some of the vagueness in the evolution of this concept. To this end, we propose the following two-step method. First, using linguistic processing, we create a large set of words pertaining to the topic of nation. Second, we train diachronic word embeddings and use them to quantify the strength of the semantic similarity between these words and thereby create meaningful clusters, which are then aligned diachronically. To illustrate the robustness of the study across languages, time spans, as well as large datasets, we apply it to the entirety of five historical newspaper archives in Dutch, Swedish, Finnish, and English. To our knowledge, thus far there have been no large-scale comparative studies of this kind that purport to grasp long-term developments in as many as four different languages in a data-driven way. A particular strength of the method we describe in this article is that, by design, it is not limited to the study of nationhood, but rather expands beyond it to other research questions and is reusable in different contexts.
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- Kurunmäki, Jussi, 1964-, et al.
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A Rhetorical View of Isms : An Introduction
- 2018
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Ingår i: Journal of Political Ideologies. - : Routledge. - 1356-9317 .- 1469-9613. ; 23:3, s. 241-255
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The article highlights the prominence of ism concepts in everyday and scholarly languages worldwide and presents a conceptual history and rhetorical perspective on how to study them. It also serves as an introduction to this special issue, which contributes to linguistically oriented research on political ideologies and transnational intellectual history. Although isms have gained some attention in connection with the study of ideas in history, political ideologies and theoretical discussions on analytical categories in scholarship, they have rarely been the main target of research. By focusing on the rhetorical use of ism concepts as a whole, the article directs new attention to the rhetorical potential of the use of isms in political controversies, the translation of isms and the alleged universal character of isms. The article suggests a new way of analysing political ideas, ideologies and analytical categories by applying a contextually sensitive understanding of the ism as words and their rhetorical use. It also presents an agenda for the study of isms globally.
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- Kurunmäki, Jussi, 1964-, et al.
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Begreppshistoria
- 2018. - 4. omarb.
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Ingår i: Textens mening och makt. - Lund : Studentlitteratur AB. - 9789144117928 ; , s. 179-216
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Kurunmäki, Jussi, 1964-, et al.
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Isms, Ideologies and Setting the Agenda for Public Debate
- 2018
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Ingår i: Journal of Political Ideologies. - : Routledge. - 1356-9317 .- 1469-9613. ; 23:3, s. 256-282
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article presents a long-term account of isms from antiquity to the present. It discusses the spread of isms into nearly all spheres of life and why isms are still perceived as ideological. Based on a combined analysis of word frequencies in large digital libraries and more detailed contextual discussions of patriotism, liberalism, nationalism and totalitarianism, the article studies the emergence of isms and their potential transformation from pejorative labels to concepts of group-identification and analytical categories. Isms have been highlighted as future-oriented concepts on which modern political ideologies were built from the early nineteenth century on. Isms have also been identified as being collectively responsible for the twentieth-century experience that has been conceptualized as totalitarianism. While elaborating the notion of isms as ideological future-oriented 'concepts of movement', the article points out their crucial role in forging historic roots for these modern ideologies as well as for religious and cultural phenomena. By emphasizing the rhetorical potential in using isms as words of abuse, forging traditions for isms and claiming universal applicability to isms, the article provides insight into the constant renegotiation of the relationship between ideologies and isms, a phenomenon that has gained increased topicality in recent decades.
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- Marjanen, Jani, et al.
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Topic Modelling Discourse Dynamics in Historical Newspapers
- 2021
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Ingår i: CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Post-Proceedings of the 5th Conference Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries (DHN 2020), Riga, Latvia, October 21-23, 2020. - Aachen : M. Jeusfeld c/o Redaktion Sun SITE, Informatik. - 1613-0073.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper addresses methodological issues in diachronic data analysis for historical research. We apply two families of topic models (LDA and DTM) on a relatively large set of historical newspapers, with the aim of capturing and understanding discourse dynamics. Our case study focuses on newspapers and periodicals published in Finland between 1854 and 1917, but our method can easily be transposed to any diachronic data. Our main contributions are a) a combined sampling, training and inference procedure for applying topic models to huge and imbalanced diachronic text collections; b) a discussion on the differences between two topic models for this type of data; c) quantifying topic prominence for a period and thus a generalization of document-wise topic assignment to a discourse level; and d) a discussion of the role of humanistic interpretation with regard to analysing discourse dynamics through topic models.
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- Paju, Petri, et al.
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Textual Migration Across the Baltic Sea : Creating a Database of Text Reuse Between Finland and Sweden
- 2022
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 6th Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Conference (DHNB 2022). - : Technical University of Aachen. ; , s. 361-369
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper, we present a database and an interface on text reuse between newspapers and journals published in the Swedish language in Sweden and Finland during the 1645–1918 time frame. Using two national, digital newspaper collections, we detected their textual similarities with a computational method to study the textual migration, i.e., information flows, between the two countries. For purposes of this project, we developed a database of detected clusters of text reuse and an online interface to search, examine and analyse the transnational movement of information. The database, Text Reuse in the Swedish-language Press, 1645–1918, is accessible online and includes texts from over 1,100 newspapers and journals published at approximately 150 locations at various times during the 274-year time frame.
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