Analysis of Historical Sources by the Text-Mining

Research Project

Project/Area Number	22652070
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	History of Europe and America
Research Institution	Tohoku Gakuin University
Principal Investigator	KUSUNOKI Yoshihiko 東北学院大学, 文学部, 教授 (20234429)
Project Period (FY)	2010 – 2012
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2012)
Budget Amount *help	¥2,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000) Fiscal Year 2012: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000) Fiscal Year 2011: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000) Fiscal Year 2010: ¥700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000)
Keywords	魔女 / 歴史資料 / テキストマイニング / テキスト・マイニング / 教会 / デジタル化 / 悪魔学 / 魔女裁判 / 計量化
Research Abstract	Could the text-mining be a tool of analysis of historical sources? Yes in some part, no in others. No one can analyze historical sources but historical researchers, so with the text mining. For the text-mining can not read between lines, meanings characteristic of age and region, and a great diversity of meaning of a word. We need an enormous amount of time, if possible, for preparations of the text mining, digitizations of historical sources, selections of keywords, and so on. Now we don’t think that the text-mining is a useful tool for historical research.