Finding Talk About the Past in the Discourse of Non-Historians
Alex Olieman,
Kaspar Beelen,
Jaap Kamps
Abstract:A heightened interest in the presence of the past has given rise to the new field of memory studies, but there is a lack of search and research tools to support studying how and why the past is evoked in diachronic discourses. Searching for temporal references is not straightforward. It entails bridging the gap between conceptuallybased information needs on one side, and term-based inverted indexes on the other. Our approach enables the search for references to (intersubjective) historical periods in diachroni… Show more
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