Headline Analysis with Machine Learning on The Hongkong News

The digital scholarship tools nowadays give scholars multiple options to explore the complex past. They can browse through an interactive timeline, study the massive digitized textual content or explore some of the large events via the newspaper headings. This project explores issues of narrative time and space. It embraces a conception of geography, of space, as place can discover the contemporary lives that were linked up to the newspaper articles and time is another fundamental axis of narrative which can be employed for story-telling for digital scholarship. It explores the ways in which new digital tools allow us to understand the newspaper content in the setting of time and space, ways for geography to meet history, via some sophisticated text-mining computational algorithms. The idea is to enable scholars to access the content from various facets, with a view to understanding the articles in the newspaper in sort of non-conventional approach.