Exploring North-South Identities Using NLP: The Image of Spain in the German Weekly Die Zeit

Volume 43 Issue 1

Author(s): Elisa Garrido

Recommended Citation:

Garrido, Elisa (2018) “Exploring North-South Identities Using NLP: The Image of Spain in the German Weekly Die Zeit,” Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies: Vol. 43 : Iss. 1 , Article 4.

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Abstract:

What can the new digital text corpora analysis tell us about history and public discourse? As language is an important source of metaphorical images and meanings, the recent advances in natural language processing (NLP) show that this is a useful tool to analyze social processes that are revealed in language production. Digital tools like DiaCollo enable us to extract information about socioeconomic situations in media datasets like newspapers, historical archives, political discourses and an unlimited number of publications; that is to say anything published or translated in text. This work develops the possibilities of using NLP in humanities using word collocation analysis to explore the image of Spain in the German weekly Die Zeit.

Tags: Collocations, Diacollo, Europe, Immigration, PIGS, South, Spain