Textual repetition and variation in the Resolutions of the States General of the Dutch Republic

In the NWO REPUBLIC project, we are creating digital access to the corpus of the Resolutions of the States General of the Dutch Republic (1576-1796). This corpus contains the decisions made in the States General each day for a 220 year period. The resolutions were recorded using a standard structure and contain many standard formulations for aspects of the decision making process, including the source of the topic that was decided on (a formal request, a missive, etc.), whether a decision was reached and what that decision was. We discuss different techniques we use to identify formulaic expre... Mehr ...