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THE DECM PROJECT<\/h2>\n<\/div>
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How can language technologies and geospatial analysis facilitate answering important questions about the early colonisation of America? How did the Spanish colonial authorities portray and use information about the newly conquered territories and people? Can we identify, map, and analyse the geographies associated with the colonial period of Mexico, and what was said about them in historical sources, through expedite computational means?<\/p>\n

Using part of the corpus known as Relaciones Geogr\u00e1ficas de la Nueva Espa\u00f1a<\/strong> \u2013 one of the most important colonial historical sources of America \u2013 concerned with the territory of Mexico, this project is creating and developing novel computational approaches for the semi-automated exploration of thousands of pages contained in these 16th century documents.<\/p>\n

Tackling important historical and methodological questions, and highly demanding challenges in the study of these written sources, we are extracting, analysing, and visualising information that can improve our understanding of this period, and expedite the process by which we study these documents.<\/p>\n

Our highly interdisciplinary team is combining techniques from different disciplines, including Corpus Linguistics, Text Mining, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and Geographic Information Systems, to address questions related to the recording of information about indigenous cultures, the Spanish exploration of indigenous social and religious concepts, the appropriation and ideas about place and space in the indigenous world, and their attitudes towards politics and economy.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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OUR AIMS<\/h2>\n<\/div>
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To analyse colonial history like never before.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Computational Methods for Colonial History<\/h2><\/div>
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We are developing new approaches combining theory and methods from Corpus Linguistics, Natural Language Processing and Geographic Information Science.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Early Colonial Gazetteer & digital datasets<\/h2><\/div>
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We are creating a 16th century gazetteer and we will create annotated versions of the corpus to facilitate text mining and the application of other automated analyses.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Large scale analysis of historical sources<\/h2><\/div>
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Through Geographical Text Analysis we will aim to explore interesting questions related to 16th century life including economics, politics, military and religious life.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Interdisciplinarity: Humanities & CompSci<\/h2><\/div>
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Two heads are better than one. Working together we are breaking frontiers in different fields and we are creating models for interdisciplinary work in the Humanities and Sciences.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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