A case study in text mining: Textual analysis of the Territorial Papers.

The Territorial Papers of the United States are a valuable and underused resource containing almost 10,000 documents written between 1789 and 1848 about the formation of new sovereign states from US territory. These communications between the federal government and frontier settlers comprise the act...

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Publicado en:Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 35; no. 1; pp. 101 - 127
Autores principales: Ledolter, Johannes, VanderVelde, Lea
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA Apr2020
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        Content analysis
        Data visualization
        Sovereignty
        Linguistics
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