{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/pilot-study-for-the-cost-action-reassembling","title":"Pilot study for the COST Action \"Reassembling the Republic of Letters\": language-driven network analysis of letters from the Hartlib's Papers","arxiv_id":"1801.09896","date":"2018-01-30","proceeding":null,"authors":["Barbara McGillivray","Federico Sangati"],"abstract":"The present report summarizes an exploratory study which we carried out in\nthe context of the COST Action IS1310 \"Reassembling the Republic of Letters,\n1500-1800\", and which is relevant to the activities of Working Group 3 \"Texts\nand Topics\" and Working Group 2 \"People and Networks\". In this study we\ninvestigated the use of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Network Text\nAnalysis on a small sample of seventeenth-century letters selected from Hartlib\nPapers, whose records are in one of the catalogues of Early Modern Letters\nOnline (EMLO) and whose online edition is available on the website of the\nHumanities Research Institute at the University of Sheffield\n(http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/hartlib/). We outline the NLP pipeline used to\nautomatically process the texts into a network representation, in order to\nidentify the texts' \"narrative centrality\", i.e. the most central entities in\nthe texts, and the relations between them.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1801.09896v1","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.09896v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"pilot-study-for-the-cost-action-reassembling","repo_url":"https://github.com/kercos/DH_Code","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}