Textual Geographies
Time Frame
2016-2019
Total Funding to Date
$15,536.00
Investigator
- J. Stephen Downie
Textual Geographies uses named entity recognition and geolocation to extract place names from multilingual (English, German, Spanish, and Chinese) printed volumes held by the HathiTrust digital library and to associate those names with detailed geographic information. The project corpus currently includes about 10 million volumes published between 1700 and the present day.
Personnel
Funding Agencies
- National Endowment for the Humanities – $15,536.00