Existing full text datasets of US public domain newspapers do not recognize the often
complex layouts of newspaper scans, and as a result the digitized content scrambles texts …

During the 19th century, throughout the Anglophone world, most fiction was first published in
periodicals. In Australia, newspapers were not only the main source of periodical fiction, but …

Digital humanities research has focused primarily on the analysis of texts. This emphasis
stems from the availability of technology to study digitized text. Optical character recognition …

The approaches to data-rich literary history that dominate academic and public debate—
Franco Moretti's “distant reading” and Matthew Jockers's “macroanalysis”—model literary …

This article argues that scholars must understand mass digitized texts as assemblages of
new editions, subsidiary editions, and impressions of their historical sources, and that these …

Following decades of massive digitization, an unprecedented amount of historical document
facsimiles can now be retrieved and accessed via cultural heritage online portals. If this …

The digital collections of newspapers have given rise to a growing interest in studying them
with computational methods. This article contributes to this discussion by presenting a …

Chronicling America is a product of the National Digital Newspaper Program, a partnership
between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities to digitize …

Many users consult digital archives daily, but the information they can access is
unrepresentative of the diversity of documentary history. The sequence-to-sequence …

Identifying near duplicates within large, noisy text corpora has a myriad of applications that
range from de-duplicating training datasets, reducing privacy risk, and evaluating test set …