Integrated Social History Environment for Research (ISHER)-Digging into Social Unrest

This project will develop an integrated environment using sophisticated text mining tools to facilitate knowledge discovery in social history research. It will provide social historians and social scientists with the means to detect and associate events, trends, people, organizations, and other entities of specific interest to social historians.

Principal Investigators

Dan Roth, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, US, NSF
Antal van den Bosch, Tilburg University, NL, NWO
Sophia Ananiadou, The University of Manchester, UK, AHRC/ESRC/JISC
Additional participating institutions: International Institute of Social History