Demystifying oral history with natural language processing and data analytics: a case study of the Densho digital collection
Haihua Chen,
Jeonghyun (Annie) Kim,
Jiangping Chen
et al.
Abstract:Purpose
This study aims to explore the applications of natural language processing (NLP) and data analytics in understanding large-scale digital collections in oral history archives.
Design/methodology/approach
NLP and data analytics were used to analyse the oral interview transcripts of 904 survivors of the Japanese American incarceration camps collected from Densho Digital Repository, relying specifically on descriptive analysis, keyword extraction, topic modelling and sentiment analysis (SA).
Findings
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