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Text-Mining Differences in Chinese Newspaper Articles

Abstract

The British Hong Kong Government censored Chinese newspapers before their publication in the colony in the 1930s.

About This Material

This is a Hands-on Tutorial from the GTN which is usable either for individual self-study, or as a teaching material in a classroom.

Questions this will address

  • How can I automatically compare two Chinese newspaper articles?
  • What characters were censored in a Chinese newspaper published in Hong Kong in the 1930s?

Learning Objectives

  • Learn to clean and compare two texts.
  • Extract specific information out of texts.
  • Visualise your results in a word cloud.

Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Keywords: Humanities, Statistics and machine learning, Text_mining

Target audience: Students

Resource type: e-learning

Version: 4

Status: Active

Prerequisites:

Introduction to Galaxy Analyses

Learning objectives:

  • Learn to clean and compare two texts.
  • Extract specific information out of texts.
  • Visualise your results in a word cloud.

Date modified: 2025-03-11

Date published: 2025-02-28

Authors: Daniela Schneider

Contributors: Björn Grüning, Daniela Schneider

Scientific topics: Statistics and probability


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