German Word Embeddings for ShiCo based on historic newspapers

We provide word embeddings models that have been computed on historic German newspapers. The models are computed for time spans of 10 years and can be used with ShiCo, a visualization tool for word embeddings.  We provide models for three different corpora and also have links to the ShiCo demos:

• SBB (State library of Berlin): Newspaper collection from Germany from 1872 to 1912 (demo).
• Chonicling America: German-written newspaper pages from 1840 to 1908 that have been published in the United States (demo).
• Europeana: German-written newspapers that have been published in Europe from 1840 to 1912 (demo).

For each model a configuration is required both for the frontend and the backend (see config.shico.tar.gz). In order to setup a ShiCo instance you can either follow the description of the ShiCo GitHub page or follow the instructions for running ShiCo using Docker as described in the README.docker.txt file.