Debating Evil: Using word embeddings to analyse parliamentary debates on war criminals in the Netherlands

Milan M. van Lange; Ralf D. Futselaar

doi:10.51663/pnz.59.1.07

Debating Evil: Using word embeddings to analyse parliamentary debates on war criminals in the Netherlands

Milan M. van Lange, Ralf D. Futselaar

Department of History

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We are proposing a method to investigate changes in historical discourse by using large bodies of text and word embedding models. As a case study, we investigate discussions in Dutch Parliament about the punishment of war criminals in the period 1945-1975. 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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	140-156
Number of pages	17
Journal	Prispevki za Novejso Zgodovino
Volume	59
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.51663/pnz.59.1.07
Publication status	Published - 7 Jun 2019

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