second international conference, TPDL 2012, Paphos, Cyprus, September 23-27, 2012: proceedings
ISBN
9783642332890
ISBN (electronic)
9783642332906
Series
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Event
Theory and practice of digital libraries: 2nd international conference, TPDL 2012
Pages (from-to)
215-221
Publisher
Heidelberg: Springer
Organisations
Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Informatics Institute (IVI)
Abstract
The availability of digitized collections of historical data, such as newspapers, increases every day. With that, so does the wish for historians to explore these collections. Methods that are traditionally used to examine a collection do not scale up to today’s collection sizes. We propose a method that combines text mining with exploratory search to provide historians with a means of interactively selecting and inspecting relevant documents from very large collections. We assess our proposal with a case study on a prototype system.
