Using ECCO-BERT and the Historical Thesaurus of English to Explore Concepts and Agency in Historical Writing Interpreting the Eighteenth-century Luxury Debate

Abstract: This paper combines text reuse detection (using software developed for protein string detection) with genre classification based on the Bert transformer model, to understand changing patterns of genre and intextuality in a large dataset of eighteenth century British and Irish texts.
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