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Exploring Experiences of Migration: A Corpus Linguistic Study of Irish Emigrant Letters ...
Abstract: Over the last few centuries Ireland has experienced an unparalleled outflow of its inhabitants, the majority of which left their homes in the hope of finding a better life abroad. The personal experiences of these emigrants are most vividly documented in the multitude of letters they sent home to their families and loved ones they left behind. Following a data-driven approach, the current study aims to explore a collection of these Irish emigrant letters with the help of computer-aided methods. The main focus of the project lies on the thematic investigation of these correspondences, which is carried out with the help of topic modelling. Topic modelling is a fully automated methodology capable of recognising patterns of word co-occurrences in large collections of text. Thus, these algorithms allow us to gain insights into the recurring themes found in large text corpora, which would not be possible to capture manually. However, due to its inherent neglect of contextual information, topic modelling remains a ...
URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.26083/tuprints-00020263
https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/id/eprint/20263
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