Open AccessDebating Evil
Author(s) -
Milan van Lange,
Ralf Futselaar
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
prispevki za novejšo zgodovino
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.213
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 2463-7807
pISSN - 0353-0329
DOI - 10.51663/pnz.59.1.07
Subject(s) - parliament , trace (psycholinguistics) , word2vec , vocabulary , word embedding , period (music) , punishment (psychology) , word (group theory) , embedding , computer science , linguistics , artificial intelligence , natural language processing , political science , psychology , law , philosophy , social psychology , politics , aesthetics
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.