Further frontiers in GIS: Extending Spatial Analysis to Textual Sources in Archaeology
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Digital Humanities Research Centre; University of ChesterPublication Date
2015-05-20
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Although the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) has a long history in archaeology, spatial technologies have been rarely used to analyse the content of textual collections. A newly developed approach termed Geographic Text Analysis (GTA) is now allowing the semi-automated exploration of large corpora incorporating a combination of Natural Language Processing techniques, Corpus Linguistics, and GIS. In this article we explain the development of GTA, propose possible uses of this methodology in the field of archaeology, and give a summary of the challenges that emerge from this type of analysis.Citation
Murrieta-Flores, P., & Gregory, I. (2015). Further frontiers in GIS: Extending Spatial Analysis to Textual Sources in Archaeology. Open Archaeology, 1(1): 166-175. DOI 10.1515/opar-2015-0010.Publisher
De Gruyter OpenJournal
Open ArchaeologyAdditional Links
http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/opar.2014.1.issue-1/opar-2015-0010/opar-2015-0010.xmlType
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2300-6560Sponsors
The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) / ERC grant “Spatial Humanities: Texts, GIS, places” (agreement number 283850).ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1515/opar-2015-0010
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