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What is Historical Newspapers Analysis and Why Bother?

Unit I: Introduction to historical newspaper and the NewsEye platform

1.1 Introduction to Historical Newspaper Analysis and Digitisation

1.1.1 Historical newspapers: an infinite source of data
1.1.2 What is NewsEye?
1.1.3 From paper to digital
1.1.4 From data to information: overview

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Unit II: Searching with the NewsEye Platform

2.1. Presentation of the NewsEye Platform

2.1.1. The search page
2.1.2. The search result page
2.1.3. The document show page
2.1.4. The datasets pages
2.1.5. Creating a dataset

2.2. Understanding how the platform works

2.2.1. Demonstration of blackboxes
2.2.2. Indexing textual content
2.2.3. Opening the blackbox : the ranking problem

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Datasets show page overview

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Unit III: Information extraction and document understanding

3.1 Document Understanding and Information Extract : Overview and Programming Basics

3.1.1 Overview
3.1.2 Information Extraction History
3.1.3 Text Pre-processing : Programming Basics

3.2 Natural Language Processing (NLP) programming basics

3.2.1 Natural Language Processing (NLP) basics
3.2.2 Natural Language Processing (NLP) advanced

3.3 Extracting information : Named Entity Recognition (NER)

3.3.1 What are named entities ?
3.3.2. Why are named entities important?
3.3.3 Named Entity Recognition with Python

Stopwords interactive activity

NER interactive activity

Unit IV: Discover and use a corpus of historical newspapers

4.1 Approaches for analysing newspaper collection

4.1.1 Reading the corpus
4.1.2 Exploring data using wordclouds
4.1.3 Focusing on meaningful: adding POS tagging
4.1.4 Extracting named entities
4.1.5 Mapping locations on a map

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