The leveled approach. Using and evaluating text mining tools AVResearcherXL and Texcavator for historical research on public perceptions of drugs
This work addresses the challenge of historical research on public perceptions of drugs for historians and digital humanities scholars, but it appears incremental as it focuses on evaluating existing tools rather than introducing new methods.
The researchers tackled the problem of understanding historical drug debates in a digital newspaper archive by introducing an explorative leveled approach that alternates between distant and close reading, and used this approach to evaluate two text mining tools, AVResearcherXL and Texcavator, though no concrete results or numbers are provided.
We introduce our explorative historical leveled approach that we use to understand drug debates in the Royal Dutch Library's digital newspaper archive. In this approach we alternate between distant reading and close reading. Furthermore, we use this approach to evaluate two text mining tools: AVResearcherXL and Texcavator.