Tomás Herrera

Lecturer · Universidad de Chile

Research

I study how Spanish-language newspapers framed scientific authority in the early twentieth century. My current project compares topic models built from editorial and advertising pages.

Before CS research

I trained in journalism and worked as a data reporter for a regional newspaper before moving into computational research.

Current fields

• Computational history
• Topic modelling

Other fields

• Journalism
• Media history

The value of these perspectives

Newsroom experience keeps me attentive to how genre conventions shape the text before any model reads it.