Mapping Disease and Mortality in Victorian England & Wales

In order to demonstrate the potentials of integrating tools and methods from GIS, Corpus Linguistics and NLP, we recently completed a case study using named-entity recognition in tandem with collocation and spatial analysis to examine the annual Reports of the General Register Office for England and Wales (hereafter, GRO) between 1840 and 1880. Taken together, the forty … Continue reading Mapping Disease and Mortality in Victorian England & Wales