blog post
Islam West Africa Collection: Dataset, Distant Reading, and Uses of AI for Discourse Analysis
- Title
- Islam West Africa Collection: Dataset, Distant Reading, and Uses of AI for Discourse Analysis
- list of authors
- Anaïs Wion
- Type
- Article de blog
- Abstract
- Islam West Africa Collection (IWAC), created and maintained by F. Madore, is an open-access database that provides access to press clippings from the mainstream press in West African (Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Benin, Togo, Niger, Nigeria) as well as Islamic publications, and video recordings, all of those documents related to Islam. Complex tools enable discourse analysis and answer various scientific questions through keywords mapping, topic modelling, sentiment analysis and spatial visualization.
- Publisher
- The Digital Orientalist
- Date
- September 23, 2025
- Language
- Anglais