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This paper introduces LACLICHEV (Latin American Climate Change Evolution platform), a data collections exploration environment for exploring historical newspapers searching for articles reporting meteorological events. LACLICHEV is based on data collections’ exploration techniques combined with information retrieval, data analytics, and geographic querying and visualization. This environment provides tools for curating, exploring and analyzing historical newspapers articles, their description and location, and the vocabularies used for referring to meteorological events. The objective being to understand the content of newspapers and identifying possible patterns and models that can build a view of the history of climate change in the Latin American region.
We thank the master student Santiago Ruiz Angulo of the Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara who implemented the first version of LACLICHEV during his internship at the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, Spain, funded by the CONACYT “beca mixta” fellowship program of the Mexican government.
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A full list of POS tags can be found in https://www.cms.gov/.
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A demo version of LACLICHEV capable of exploring articles from TheGuardian is accessible on Github: http://github.com/javieraespinosa/ipgh-lab.
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In Mexico a storm is called a “chaparrón” and in Uruguay it is called a “chubasco”.
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Vargas-Solar, G., Zechinelli-Martini, JL., Espinosa-Oviedo, J.A., Vilches-Blázquez, L.M. (2021). LACLICHEV: Exploring the History of Climate Change in Latin America Within Newspapers Digital Collections. In: Bellatreche, L., et al. New Trends in Database and Information Systems. ADBIS 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1450. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85082-1_11
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