ALCIDE: Extracting and visualising content from large document collections to support humanities studies

摘要: Abstract The application of research practices and methodologies from the Information Communication Technologies to Humanities studies is having a great impact on way humanities being conducted. However, although many applications have been developed automatically analyse document collections historical or literary domain, they often fail provide real support scholars because their inherent complexity: technical skills are required use them inspect output. On other hand, some systems more user-friendly, but present basic analyses limited needs specific community. In order overcome aforementioned limitations, we ALCIDE ( Analysis Language Content Digital Environment ), web-based platform designed assist in navigating analysing large quantities textual data such as sources works. This suite tools combines advanced text processing techniques with intuitive visualisations output serve broad range questions, which no comparable tool can address single platform. Textual corpora be inspected compared along five semantic dimensions: who, where, when, what how. Such dimensions different combinations allow targeting key questions disciplines, shown cases presented.