Mining Wages in Nineteenth-Century Job Advertisements: The Application of Language Resources and Language Technology to study Economic and Social Inequality

Ruben Ros; Marieke van Erp; Auke Rijpma; Richard Zijdeman

Mining Wages in Nineteenth-Century Job Advertisements: The Application of Language Resources and Language Technology to study Economic and Social Inequality

Ruben Ros
, Marieke van Erp
, Auke Rijpma
, Richard Zijdeman

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For the analysis of historical wage development, no structured data is available. Job advertisements, as found in newspapers can provide insights into what different types of jobs paid, but require language technology to structure in a format conducive to quantitative analysis. In this paper, we report on our experiments to mine wages from 19th century newspaper advertisements and detail the challenges that need to be overcome to perform a socio-economic analysis of textual data sources.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Workshop about Language Resources for the SSH Cloud
Publisher	European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
Pages	27-32
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	979-10-95546-43-6
Publication status	Published - May 2020

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Ros, R., van Erp, M., Rijpma, A., & Zijdeman, R. (2020). Mining Wages in Nineteenth-Century Job Advertisements: The Application of Language Resources and Language Technology to study Economic and Social Inequality. In Proceedings of the Workshop about Language Resources for the SSH Cloud (pp. 27-32). European Language Resources Association (ELRA). https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.lr4sshoc-1.5

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Ros, R, van Erp, M, Rijpma, A & Zijdeman, R 2020, Mining Wages in Nineteenth-Century Job Advertisements: The Application of Language Resources and Language Technology to study Economic and Social Inequality. in Proceedings of the Workshop about Language Resources for the SSH Cloud. European Language Resources Association (ELRA), pp. 27-32. <https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.lr4sshoc-1.5>

Mining Wages in Nineteenth-Century Job Advertisements: The Application of Language Resources and Language Technology to study Economic and Social Inequality. / Ros, Ruben; van Erp, Marieke; Rijpma, Auke et al.
Proceedings of the Workshop about Language Resources for the SSH Cloud. European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2020. p. 27-32.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

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