Publications

Debating Evil: Using Word Embeddings to Analyze Parliamentary Debates on War Criminals in The Netherlands

Published in Contributions to Contemporary History. Vol. 59, no. 1 (2019), 2019

In this paper a method is evaluated to investigate changes in historical discourse by using large bodies of text and word embedding models. As a case study, discussions in Dutch Parliament about the punishment of war criminals in the period 1945-1975 are investigated. We will demonstrate how word embedding models, trained with Google’s Word2Vec algorithm, can be used to trace historical developments in parliamentary vocabulary through time.

NIOD-blog miniseries: Integrating New Methods in Historical Research

Published in NIOD Blog, 2019

In this NIOD blog miniseries, I briefly discuss my experiences as a fellow at the C2DH in Luxembourg. I write on the impresso newspaper project (part 1), the exploratory work on this project (part 2), and reflect on the application of digital methods in historical research (part 3).

Debating Evil (conference paper)

Published in Proceedings of the Conference on Language Technologies & Digital Humanities 2018, 2018

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Recommended citation: van Lange, M. & Futselaar, R. (2018). "Debating Evil: Using Word Embeddings to Analyze Parliamentary Debates on War Criminals in The Netherlands." Proceedings of the Conference on Language Technologies & Digital Humanities 2018

Ontwapenend onderzoek. De kruisrakettendiscussie geanalyseerd

Published in NIOD Library Blog, 2018

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Riches of the Poor: Using Crummy Entity Linkers for Interactive Search in Digital Humanities

Published in 16th Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop, Hilversum, Netherlands, 2017

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Recommended citation: Olieman, A., Beelen, K., van Lange, M., Kamps, J., & Marx, M. (2017). "Riches of the Poor: Using Crummy Entity Linkers for Interactive Search in Digital Humanities" Abstract from 16th Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop, Hilversum, Netherlands.

Good Applications for Crummy Entity Linkers? The Case of Corpus Selection in Digital Humanities

Published in Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Semantic Systems, 2017

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Recommended citation: Olieman, A., Beelen, K., van Lange, M., Kamps, J., & Marx, M. (2017). "Good Applications for Crummy Entity Linkers? The Case of Corpus Selection in Digital Humanities." Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Semantic Systems

Geschiedschrijving Nederlands verzet steeds persoonlijker

Published in Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, 2016

Review of: Hilbrink (2015), Knokploegen; Schippers (2015), De Westerweelgroep en de Palestinapioniers

Recommended citation: Van Lange, M. (2016). "Geschiedschrijving Nederlands verzet steeds persoonlijker." Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis. 129:4.