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Text-Mining Differences in Chinese Newspaper Articles
Abstract
The British Hong Kong Government censored Chinese newspapers before their publication in the colony in the 1930s.
About This Material
This is a Hands-on Tutorial from the GTN which is usable either for individual self-study, or as a teaching material in a classroom.
Questions this will address
- How can I automatically compare two Chinese newspaper articles?
- What characters were censored in a Chinese newspaper published in Hong Kong in the 1930s?
Learning Objectives
- Learn to clean and compare two texts.
- Extract specific information from texts.
- Visualise your results in a word cloud.
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Keywords: Digital Humanities, text mining
Competency level: •• Intermediate
Target audience: Students
Resource type: e-learning
Version: 7
Status: Active
Prerequisites:
Introduction to Digital Humanities in Galaxy
Learning objectives:
- Learn to clean and compare two texts.
- Extract specific information from texts.
- Visualise your results in a word cloud.
Date modified: 2026-05-06
Date published: 2025-02-28
Authors: 
Daniela Schneider
Contributors: Teresa Müller, Björn Grüning, Daniela Schneider, Saskia Hiltemann, Helena Rasche
Scientific topics: Statistics and probability
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