Toronto summer interns’ work

Aug 28, 2015

Here Kaspar writes about the work of the project’s two summer interns: Roman Polyanovsky and Tim Alberdingk Thijm, two Computer Science undergraduates who were working as summer interns on the Dilipad project, have created a video to showcase the project to a...

Visualizing Parliamentary Discourse with Word2Vec and Gephi.

Aug 5, 2015

This is a post by Kaspar Beelen. Kaspar is a post-doctoral researcher with the Toronto part of the project team. Introduction For historians, the idea of “automated” content analysis is still contested and treated with a justified dose of suspicion. How...

Sources of Evidence for Automatic Indexing of Political Texts

May 5, 2015

Political texts on the Web, documenting laws and policies and the process leading to them, are of key importance to government, industry, and every individual citizen.  Yet access to such texts is difficult due to the ever increasing volume and complexity of the...

The Historical Aspects of Dilipad: Challenges and Opportunities

Mar 19, 2015

This post originally appeared on the Digging into Linked Parliamentary Data project blog, and is a guest post by one of the historians working the project, Luke Blaxill. The Dilipad project is on one hand exciting because it will allow us to investigate ambitious...