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1. Using ECCO-BERT and the Historical Thesaurus of English to Explore Concepts and Agency in Historical Writing Interpreting the Eighteenth-century Luxury Debate

Author

Liimatta, Aatu, Mäkelä, Eetu, Ginter, Filip, Rastas, Iiro, Tihonen, Iiro, Zhang, Jinbin, Pivovarova, Lidia, Tolonen, Mikko, K, Milja, Babbar, Rohit, Wang, Ruilin, Säily, Tanja, Ryan, Yann Ciarán, Scholger, Walter, Vogeler, Georg, Tasovac, Toma, Baillot, Anne, Raunig, Elisabeth, Scholger, Martina, Steiner, Elisabeth, Centre for Information Modelling, and Helling, Patrick

Subjects
Paper, historiography, historical thesaurus, bibliographic analysis, History, Long Presentation, ecco, cultural analytics, Book and print history, natural language processing, artificial intelligence and machine learning, bert
Abstract

This paper combines text reuse detection (using software developed for protein string detection) with genre classification based on the Bert transformer model, to understand changing patterns of genre and intextuality in a large dataset of eighteenth century British and Irish texts.

Published
2023
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2. Divining Type Tomes.

Author

Heller, Steven

Subjects
*PRINTING, *HISTORIOGRAPHY, *FONTS & typefaces, *FOUNDRIES, *PAPER
Abstract

The article examines how type bibles are being treated with more reverence by print historiography enthusiasts in 2016. Topics covered include how type specimen books are sources of all kinds of socio-historical and political documentation and how digital foundries such as Emigre, Hoefler, and Terminal continue to manufacture paper specimen sheets and posters as homages to the past.

Published
2016