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Advancing media history by transparent automatic genre classification

This project studies how genres in newspapers and television news can be detected automatically using machine learning in a transparent manner. This will enable us to capture the often hypothesized but, due to the highly time consuming nature of manual content analysis, largely understudied shift from opinion-based to fact-centred reporting. Moreover, we will open the black box of machine learning by comparing, predicting and visualizing the effects of applying various algorithms on heterogeneous data with varying quality and genre features that shift over time. This will enable scholars to do large-scale analyses of historic texts and other media types as well as critically evaluate the methodological effects of various machine learning approaches.

This project brings together expertise of journalism history scholars (RUG), specialists in data modelling, integration and analysis (CWI), digital collection experts (KB & NISV) and e-science engineers (eScience Center). It will first use a big manually annotated dataset (VIDI-project PI) to develop a transparent and reproducible approach to train an automatic classifier. Building upon this, the project will generate three outcomes:

Participating organisations

Social Sciences & Humanities
CWI
Koninklijke Bibliotheek
Netherlands eScience Center
University of Groningen

Impact

Output

Team

JvO
Jacco van Ossenbruggen
Principal investigator
Centrum Wiskunde en Informatica
MB
Marcel J. Broersma
Principal investigator
University of Groningen
AB
Aysenur Bilgin
Postdoc
Centrum Wiskunde en Informatica
Erik Tjong Kim Sang
Erik Tjong Kim Sang
eScience Research Engineer
Netherlands eScience Center
TK
Tom Klaver
eScience Research Engineer
Netherlands eScience Center
Jisk Attema
Jisk Attema
eScience Coordinator
Netherlands eScience Center

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