Comments on: Mining Old News For Fresh Historcal Insight http://www.trevorowens.org/2009/09/mining-old-news-for-fresh-historical-insight/ User Centered Digital History Sun, 29 Jan 2012 06:46:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Elliot Turner http://www.trevorowens.org/2009/09/mining-old-news-for-fresh-historical-insight/#comment-279 Elliot Turner Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:34:50 +0000 http://www.trevorowens.org/?p=518#comment-279 Automated text mining applied to historical news archives can lead to some very interesting results, in terms of facilitating information discovery and other serendipitous tasks. We've seen entire decades worth of news archives run through our company's AlchemyAPI service; developers are extracting named entities, keywords & tags, then doing all sorts of interesting things with this information: Clustering news articles, generating ontologies and concept maps, etc. It's a brave new world out there! Automated text mining applied to historical news archives can lead to some very interesting results, in terms of facilitating information discovery and other serendipitous tasks.

We've seen entire decades worth of news archives run through our company's AlchemyAPI service; developers are extracting named entities, keywords & tags, then doing all sorts of interesting things with this information: Clustering news articles, generating ontologies and concept maps, etc.

It's a brave new world out there!

]]> By: Using Zotero’s Interface To Discover Questions at Zotero @ UMW http://www.trevorowens.org/2009/09/mining-old-news-for-fresh-historical-insight/#comment-278 Using Zotero’s Interface To Discover Questions at Zotero @ UMW Mon, 07 Sep 2009 21:05:24 +0000 http://www.trevorowens.org/?p=518#comment-278 [...] to whet our appetites for ZoteroFest, Trevor Owens posted “Mining Old News For Fresh Historical Insight”.  He writes about how using Zotero can change research methodologies in two ways: the quantity of [...] [...] to whet our appetites for ZoteroFest, Trevor Owens posted “Mining Old News For Fresh Historical Insight”.  He writes about how using Zotero can change research methodologies in two ways: the quantity of [...]

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