ALCIDE: Extracting and visualising content from large document collections to support humanities studies

In order to overcome the aforementioned limitations, we developed ALCIDE (Analysis of Language and Content In a Digital Environment), a web-based platform designed to assist humanities scholars in navigating and analysing large quantities of textual data such as historical sources and literary works. This suite of tools combines advanced text processing techniques with intuitive visualisations of the output to serve a broad range of research questions, which no other comparable tool can address in a single platform. Textual corpora can be inspected and compared along five semantic dimensions: who, where, when, what and how. Such dimensions in different combinations allow targeting many key questions of different humanities disciplines, as shown in the five use cases presented.