Seminar: “Fascinating mutants”: An exploratory analysis of linguistic patterns in a genre-annotated dataset of 19th-century New Zealand newspaper articles
Thursday 9 July, 11am – 12pm
Brainbox (Elsie Locke 203)
Karin Stahel, PhD candidate in Data Science
The newspapers of 19th-century New Zealand contain a fascinating mix of article types and topics. From stern political commentary to obscure humour, the articles are sometimes surprisingly similar to today’s news and at other times very strange.
