Fig. 1

Preprocessing Illustration. This figure depicts an excerpt from Le Misantrope (Vol.2\004 (1711−1712) by Justus van Effen; as seen in the digital edition) and illustrates how we aggregate text during preprocessing. In particular, we aggregate all text with the same level of representation and narrative form (indicated by colored labels) into text passages, respectively for each issue. In this example, we arrive at three text passages: One with level of representation 2 and narrative form Metatextuality (i.e., the first paragraph), one with level of representation 2 and narrative form Citation/Motto (i.e., the third paragraph), and one with level of representation 2 and no distinct narrative form (i.e., the second and fourth paragraph). Further, we extract mentioned periodicals (indicated with blue color), people (real or fictional; indicated with green color) and places (none in this excerpt) for our analysis