When exploring news archives, a key requirement of historians is to get an overview of their search results initially. To address this problem we developed a novel retrieval model – HistDiv – which ranks articles according to historical relevance. The Archive Exploration Engine (ArchEE) system was built to showcase how HistDiv and various other state-of-the-art retrieval models coupled with time-lines and entity filters can help users better explore large news archives.
ArchEE also been selected as one of the top 3 startups in Lower Saxony for the 2016 Going Global competition organized by Hannover Impuls.
A demo of ArchEE can be found here: http://bit.ly/archive-search
The work in this project is funded by the