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Korpus prasy polskiej ChronoPress jako infrastruktura i narzędzie badań medioznawczych
ChronoPress Polish press corpus as infrastructure and tool of media studies

Author(s): Adam Pawłowski
Subject(s): Cultural history, Museology & Heritage Studies, Social history, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie
Keywords: press; digital humanities; time series; Poland under communism; ChronoPress;

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article was to discuss new methods of researching the printed press using digital humanities tools. The goal of these methods is to reintroduce the cognitively valuable resources of the digital press into scientific circulation. As one practical solution, the authors of this article proposed the ChronoPress corpus, which includes a representation press of the communist period in Poland and a rich selection of analytical tools. The genesis, design principles, and main features of ChronoPress were discussed. Moreover, several scenarios for the use of this infrastructure demonstrating its exploratory capabilities were presented. Particularly important here are lexical time series, which allow us to discover the dynamics of processes developing over time. In the ChronoPress application, it is also possible to generate concordances by clicking on a point in the time series graph. The corpus is annotated morphosyntactically and semantically (basic categories) and currently covers the years 1945–1966.

  • Issue Year: 2023
  • Issue No: 21
  • Page Range: 379-393
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Polish
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