The GDR Through the Eyes of the Stasi - Data Mining on the Secret Reports of the State Security Service of the former German Democratic Republic

Christoph Kuras, Thomas Efer, Christian Adam, Gerhard Heyer

2014

Abstract

The conjunction of NLP and the humanities has been gaining importance over the last years. As part of this development more and more historical documents are getting digitized and can be used as an input for established NLP methods. In this paper we present a corpus of texts from reports of the Ministry of State Security of the former GDR. Although written in a distinctive kind of sublanguage, we show that traditional NLP can be applied with satisfying results. We use these results as a basis for providing new ways of presentation and exploration of the data which then can be accessed by a wide spectrum of users.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Kuras C., Efer T., Adam C. and Heyer G. (2014). The GDR Through the Eyes of the Stasi - Data Mining on the Secret Reports of the State Security Service of the former German Democratic Republic . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2014) ISBN 978-989-758-048-2, pages 360-365. DOI: 10.5220/0005136703600365

in Bibtex Style

@conference{kdir14,
author={Christoph Kuras and Thomas Efer and Christian Adam and Gerhard Heyer},
title={The GDR Through the Eyes of the Stasi - Data Mining on the Secret Reports of the State Security Service of the former German Democratic Republic},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2014)},
year={2014},
pages={360-365},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005136703600365},
isbn={978-989-758-048-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2014)
TI - The GDR Through the Eyes of the Stasi - Data Mining on the Secret Reports of the State Security Service of the former German Democratic Republic
SN - 978-989-758-048-2
AU - Kuras C.
AU - Efer T.
AU - Adam C.
AU - Heyer G.
PY - 2014
SP - 360
EP - 365
DO - 10.5220/0005136703600365