Using named entity recognition and network analysis to distinguish personal networks from the social milieu in nineteenth-century Ottoman–Iraqi personal diaries.
The diaries of Joseph Mathia Svoboda capture over 40 years of trade on the Tigris, describing his daily life and regular journeys as a steamboat purser during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, specifically between the cities of Basra and Baghdad. They offer a unique perspective on d...
| Publicado en: | Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 38; no. 1; pp. 66 - 87 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Apr2023
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