Title :
Utilizing digital humanities methods for quantifying Howell´s State Trials
Author :
Bergstrom, Tracy ; Brower, Donald ; Meyers, Natalie
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA
Abstract :
In this paper we describe the undertaking of a quantitative, historically oriented analysis of the law of England between 1650-1700 as represented in Howell´s State Trials. Our goal was to analyze cases over time to support investigation into whether a quantitative analysis of the content of the 1650-1700 State Trials would exhibit an upward trend of religious tolerance.
Keywords :
criminal law; humanities; Howell state trial quantification; digital humanities methods; quantitative analysis; religious tolerance; Collaboration; Educational institutions; Libraries; Market research; Optical character recognition software; Scholarships; Visualization; Concept classification; cosine-distance; digital humanities; latent Dirichlet allocation; legal history; sentiment analysis; text analysis; topic modeling; visualization techniques;
Conference_Titel :
Digital Libraries (JCDL), 2014 IEEE/ACM Joint Conference on
Conference_Location :
London
DOI :
10.1109/JCDL.2014.6970215
