Mapping Texts: Examining the Effects of OCR Noise on Historical Newspaper Collections

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Book chapter that documents the “Mapping Texts” project, an experiment focused on the problem of OCR noise in historical newspapers.

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Torget, Andrew J., 1978- 2023.

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Book chapter that documents the “Mapping Texts” project, an experiment focused on the problem of OCR noise in historical newspapers.

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Abstract: This paper documents the “Mapping Texts” project, an experiment focused on the problem of OCR noise in historical newspapers. The purpose of the project was to combine natural language processing with data visualization to measure both OCR noise rates and their effects on how scholars detect meaningful high-level trends embedded in large-scale digital newspaper collections. The project developed two interactive visualizations measuring OCR quality and its effects on detecting high-level trends in the data, revealing the depth of the challenges facing humanities scholars seeking greater transparency of OCR data in historical newspaper databases.

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  • Digitised Newspapers- A New Eldorado for Historians?. Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2023

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Torget, Andrew J., 1978-. Mapping Texts: Examining the Effects of OCR Noise on Historical Newspaper Collections, chapter, 2023; Berlin, Germany. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2031349/: accessed December 7, 2023), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences.

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