Studying Religion in Nordic Newspapers

Studying linguistic changes on 200 years of newspapers

This research investigates methods to study linguistic evolution using a corpus of scanned newspapers. We use a corpus of 4 million press articles covering about 200 years of archives, thus documenting indirectly the evolution of written language. The corpus is made out of digitized facsimiles of Le Journal de Genève (1826-1997) and La Gazette de Lausanne (1804-1997). For each journal, the dail...

Studying Linguistic Changes over 200 Years of Newspapers through Resilient Words Analysis

This paper presents a methodology to analyze linguistic changes in a given textual corpus allowing to overcome two common problems related to corpus linguistics studies. One of these issues is the monotonic increase of the corpus size with time, and the other one is the presence of noise in the textual data. In addition, our method allows to better target the linguistic evolution of the corpus,...

The Europeana Newspapers - A Gateway to European Newspapers Online

Pivaj: an Article-centered Platform for Digitized Newspapers Newspapers Layout

PIVAJ is a platform for archived digitized newspaper emphasizing articles: extracting them from digitized documents by automated page layout analysis, OCRing them, indexing their text transcription to allow users to search for content. Crowdsourcing is used to improve the quality of the indexing, by correcting the transcription and by tagging articles with keywords. The platform has been used t...

Religious priming as a research tool for studying religion: evidentiary value, current issues, and future directions

1 The trim and fill correction has been criticized for not sufficiently adjusting for publication bias. Since this meta-analysis was first published a second paper re-analyzed this data with two additional tools that use different approaches to correct for publication bias: Bayesian Biased corrected model and a PET model [21]. The Bayesian model, similar to our analysis, found strong evidence f...