Further Frontiers in GIS: Extending Spatial Analysis to Textual Sources in Archaeology

• Authors: Patricia Murrieta-Flores , Ian Gregory
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Although the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) has a long history in archaeology, spatial technologies have been rarely used to analyse the content of textual collections. A newly developed approach termed Geographic Text Analysis (GTA) is now allowing the semi-automated exploration of large corpora incorporating a combination of Natural Language Processing techniques, Corpus Linguistics, and GIS. In this article we explain the development of GTA, propose possible uses of this methodology in the field of archaeology, and give a summary of the challenges that emerge from this type of analysis.

Keywords

EN

GIS; Digital Humanities; Spatial Humanities; Geographic Text Analysis; NLP; Corpus Linguistics; corpora; digital archaeology

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Open Archaeology
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 1
• Issue: 1

Dates

received

2014-12-19

accepted

2015-03-31

online

2015-05-20

Contributors

author

Patricia Murrieta-Flores

• History & Archaeology Department, University of Chester

author

Ian Gregory

• History Department, University of Lancaster

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/opar-2015-0010