About
Textual Geographies uses named entity recognition and geolocation to extract place names from
multilingual
(English, German, Spanish, and Chinese) printed volumes held by the HathiTrust digital library and
to
associate those names with detailed geographic information. The project corpus currently includes
about 10 million volumes published between 1700 and the present day.
The project is under active development and has enjoyed generous funding from the
National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities,
American Council of Learned Societies, and the
University of Notre Dame.
For more information concerning the corpus and research methods, please contact the
project director,
Matthew Wilkens.
Textual Geographies
Project Team
- Matthew Wilkens, Cornell University project director
- Cameron Blevins, University of Colorado, Denver
- David Chiang, University of Notre Dame
- Elizabeth Evans, Wayne State University
- Marissa Gemma, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics
- Ryan Heuser, King's College, Cambridge
- Matthew Sisk, University of Notre Dame
- Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Aarhus University
Advisory Board
- David Bamman, University of California Berkeley
- J. Stephen Downie, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Ian Gregory, Lancaster University
- Beth Plale, Indiana University Bloomington