Capturing contentiousness in historical newspapers

Cultural and linguistic sensitivities change over time, but our archives are difficult to keep updated and may therefore contain terms that were used broadly in earlier times but that are inappropriate in modern society. Museums have started to ‘clean up’ their terminology, for example through the Rijksmuseum’s terminology group and the Dutch National Museum for World Cultures’ Words Matter guide, however the sheer size and complexity of many heritage collections make it impossible to manually extend this to all data.

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