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There are (something like) 51 million words in the records of the King’s Bench during the reign of Edward III

Handwriting Text Recognition

Obviously claiming to know the number of words in the records of the King’s Bench is highly dubious but I wanted to carry out a…

Mining a Medieval Court Roll 3: TF-IDF

Text Mining

Term frequency inverse document frequency (TF-IDF) is both a mouthful and a process often carried out as part of the text mining approach. The primary idea behind TF-IDF is…

Mining a Medieval Court Roll 2: Dating

Text Mining

The previous post was spent outlining the basics of text mining and exploring some possible avenues for analysis. I learnt a lot in the process and hopefully was able to…

Why you should use Zotero

Referencing Software

This post is based on a talk I gave to Information Services staff at the Templeman Library in March 2019.

Mining a medieval court roll 1

Text Mining

I was really looking forward to giving a paper at the International Medieval Congress at Leeds this year on text mining medieval court records on session 836 which was organised by Dr Claire Kennan and Dr Emma J. Wells. I had intended to use the process as an excuse to learn text mining using R. I thought it might be provide…