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A Dataset for Toponym Resolution in Nineteenth-Century English Newspapers

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A Dataset for Toponym Resolution in Nineteenth-Century English Newspapers. / Ardanuy, Mariona Coll; Beavan, David; Beelen, Kaspar et al.
In: Journal of Open Humanities Data, Vol. 8, 3, 24.01.2022.

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Ardanuy, MC, Beavan, D, Beelen, K, Hosseini, K, Lawrence, J, McDonough, K, Nanni, F, van Strien, D & Wilson, DCS 2022, 'A Dataset for Toponym Resolution in Nineteenth-Century English Newspapers', Journal of Open Humanities Data, vol. 8, 3. https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.56

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Ardanuy, M. C., Beavan, D., Beelen, K., Hosseini, K., Lawrence, J., McDonough, K., Nanni, F., van Strien, D., & Wilson, D. C. S. (2022). A Dataset for Toponym Resolution in Nineteenth-Century English Newspapers. Journal of Open Humanities Data, 8, Article 3. https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.56

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Ardanuy MC, Beavan D, Beelen K, Hosseini K, Lawrence J, McDonough K et al. A Dataset for Toponym Resolution in Nineteenth-Century English Newspapers. Journal of Open Humanities Data. 2022 Jan 24;8:3. Epub 2021 Dec 3. doi: 10.5334/johd.56

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Ardanuy, Mariona Coll ; Beavan, David ; Beelen, Kaspar et al. / A Dataset for Toponym Resolution in Nineteenth-Century English Newspapers. In: Journal of Open Humanities Data. 2022 ; Vol. 8.

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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.",
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