Abstract:Distant reading methodologies make use of computational processes to aid in the analysis of large text corpora which might not be pliable to traditional methods of scholarly analysis due to their volume. While these methods have been applied effectively to a variety of types of texts and contexts, they can leave unaddressed the needs of scholars in the humanities disciplines like history, who often engage in close reading of sources. Complementing the close analysis of texts with some of the tools of distant r… Show more
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