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Dealing with Optical Character Recognition errors in Victorian newspapers
CASS PhD student, Amelia Joulain-Jay, has been researching to what extent OCR errors are a problem when researching historical texts, and whether these errors can be corrected. Amelia’s work has recently been featured in a very interesting blog post on the British Library’s website – you can read the full post here.
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CASS PhD Student Awarded Gale Dissertation Research Fellowship!
CASS is delighted that the Gale Dissertation Research Fellowship for research to be undertaken in 2016 has been awarded to Amelia Joulain-Jay, a PhD student at CASS, for her work on using Geographical Information Systems and Corpus Linguistics methods to investigate how places were represented in nineteenth-century British newspapers. The Gale Dissertation Research Fellowship is…
CASS Briefings
CASS: Briefings is a series of short, quick reads on the work being done at the ESRC/CASS research centre at Lancaster University, UK.