Specifically, the grant is to develop and make ready for production a next-generation online information retrieval system based on international standards (Z39.50 and SGML) which will be used for cross-domain searching, using the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS), the CURL OPAC (Consortium of University Research Libraries), the HE Archives Hub, and the Making of America II (MOA2) and Onli...

The New York Public Library is participating in the Chronicling America initiative to develop an online searchable database of historically significant newspaper articles. Microfilm copies of the papers are scanned and high resolution OCR software is run on them. The text from the OCR provides a wealth of data and opinion for researchers and historians. However, the categorization of articles p...

In this paper, we explore the task of automatic text processing applied to collections of historical newspapers, with the aim of assisting historical research. In particular, in this first stage of our project, we experiment with the use of topical models as a means to identify potential issues of interest for historians. 1 Newspapers in Historical Research Surviving newspapers are among the ri...

after the collapse of soviet :union:, america, which saw itself unrivaled in the world, wanted to play an active and effective role in the independence of countries from the soviet :union: and their willingness, particularly the republic of azerbaijan, to the west- especially the us. this made it easier for to penetrate in the region. american foreign policy elites thought that the withdrawal o...