تقرير
A Quantitative Discourse Analysis of Asian Workers in the US Historical Newspapers
| العنوان: | A Quantitative Discourse Analysis of Asian Workers in the US Historical Newspapers |
|---|---|
| المؤلفون: | Park, Jaihyun, Cordell, Ryan |
| سنة النشر: | 2024 |
| المجموعة: | Computer Science |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Computer Science - Computation and Language |
| الوصف: | Warning: This paper contains examples of offensive language targetting marginalized population. The digitization of historical texts invites researchers to explore the large-scale corpus of historical texts with computational methods. In this study, we present computational text analysis on a relatively understudied topic of how Asian workers are represented in historical newspapers in the United States. We found that the word "coolie" was semantically different in some States (e.g., Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Wyoming, Oklahoma, and Arkansas) with the different discourses around coolie. We also found that then-Confederate newspapers and then-Union newspapers formed distinctive discourses by measuring over-represented words. Newspapers from then-Confederate States associated coolie with slavery-related words. In addition, we found Asians were perceived to be inferior to European immigrants and subjected to the target of racism. This study contributes to supplementing the qualitative analysis of racism in the United States with quantitative discourse analysis. Comment: 3rd International Conference on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities (NLP4DH) |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Working Paper |
| URL الوصول: | http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.02572 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsarx.2402.02572 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | arXiv |
| الوصف غير متاح. |