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How to find a poem in 200-year-old newspapers (Media Coverage)
Author(s): Sojico, Jackie
Publication: NET Radio
Date: 11/1/2014
Abstract: Liz Lorang is on the hunt for poetry. Not poetry from today, but from 200 years ago. And she’s looking for it where it published the most in the 19th century: in American newspapers. She’s hoping a team of computer scientists can help her find all of it.
URL: http://netnebraska.org/article/culture/943643/how-find-poem-200-year-old-newspapers
Mining Newspapers for Poetry (Media Coverage)
Author(s): Lieberman, Michael
Publication: Book Patrol
Date: 10/14/2014
Abstract: What to do you get when you partner up a digital humanities projects librarian with an associate professor of computer science and engineering?
Answer: Something good.
URL: http://blog.seattlepi.com/bookpatrol/2014/10/17/mining-newspapers-for-poetry/
Project mines 8 million news pages for poetry (Media Coverage)
Author(s): Gayman, Deann
Publication: UNL Today
Date: 10/13/2014
Abstract: What differentiates a line of text from a news story and a line of text from a poem? Not much, and that’s a problem for researchers of American poetry.
URL: http://news.unl.edu/newsrooms/unltoday/article/project-mines-8-million-news-pages-for-poetry/
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