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A Dataset for Toponym Resolution in Nineteenth-Century English Newspapers

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  • Mariona Coll Ardanuy
  • David Beavan
  • Kaspar Beelen
  • Kasra Hosseini
  • Jon Lawrence
  • Katherine McDonough
  • Federico Nanni
  • Daniel van Strien
  • Daniel C. S. Wilson
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Article number3
<mark>Journal publication date</mark>24/01/2022
<mark>Journal</mark>Journal of Open Humanities Data
Volume8
Publication StatusPublished
Early online date3/12/21
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

We present a new dataset for the task of toponym resolution in digitized historical newspapers in English. It consists of 343 annotated articles from newspapers based in four different locations in England (Manchester, Ashton-under-Lyne, Poole and Dorchester), published between 1780 and 1870. The articles have been manually annotated with mentions of places, which are linked—whenever possible—to their corresponding entry on Wikipedia. The dataset consists of 3,364 annotated toponyms, of which 2,784 have been provided with a link to Wikipedia. The dataset is published in the British Library shared research repository, and is especially of interest to researchers working on improving semantic access to historical newspaper content.