A digital humanities-oriented email history eventline generating method and apparatus, a terminal device, and a readable storage medium. The method comprises: establishing a deep hash model, and training the deep hash model using a training data set (S1); performing hash coding on pre-archived emails by means of the trained deep hash model, and associating obtained email hash codes with corresponding emails and storing same in an email historical material database (S2); generating a retrieval hash value by means of the trained deep hash model according to an obtained retrieval sentence and performing retrieval to extract target emails (S3); and generating an email history eventline in chronological order according to the archiving times of the target emails (S4). According to the method, deep learning is applied to email retrieval, and an email history eventline is generated for retrieved emails, thereby effectively assisting in digital humanities research and storage and utilization of related electronic historical materials, and assisting in humanities academic research.
DIGITAL HUMANITIES-ORIENTED EMAIL HISTORY EVENTLINE GENERATING METHOD AND APPARATUS