Embeddings can map huge historical news corpora, three papers show
leland_mcinnes · x · 2026-08-04
The post shares a paper and three related conference papers on using embeddings to explore very large historical corpora.
- The main paper, Les embeddings, nouvel outil d’une histoire numérique des grands corpus de presse?, presents a procedure for analyzing huge collections of news articles.
- It combines archival sources with news articles through text embeddings.
- The attached figures show semantic maps of press and radio archives, including UMAP-style visualizations and cluster comparisons.
- The abstract says the notebook is designed for historians and students to click through points and inspect the underlying articles.
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