Content analysis of 150 years of British periodicals

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 2017, Pages E457-E465

  Lansdall Welfare, Thomas ^a   Sudhahar, Saatviga ^a   Thompson, James ^a   Lewis, Justin ^b   Cristianini, Nello ^a   Gregor, Amy ^c   Low, Boon ^c   Atkin Wright, Toby ^c   Dobson, Malcolm ^c   Callison, Richard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c FindMyPast Newspaper Archive Limited   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Artificial intelligence; Computational history; Culturomics; Data science; Digital humanities

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BOOK; CONTENT ANALYSIS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; HUMANITIES; OCCUPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; SOCIAL CHANGE; TECHNOLOGY; WAR;

EID: 85010644406     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1606380114     Document Type: Article

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