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TY - GEN
T1 - Toponym disambiguation in historical documents using network analysis of qualitative relationships
AU - McDonough, Katherine
PY - 2019/11/5
Y1 - 2019/11/5
N2 - In this paper we use network analysis to identify qualitative “neighbors” for toponyms in an eighteenth-century French encyclopedia, but could apply to any entry-based text with annotated toponyms. This method draws on relations in a corpus of articles, which improves disambiguation at a later stage with an external resource. We suggest the network as an alternative to geospatial representation, a useful proxy when no historical gazetteer exists for the source material’s period. Our first experiments have shown that this approach goes beyond a simple text analysis and is able to find relations between toponyms that are not co-occurring in the same documents. Network relations are also usefully compared with disambiguated toponyms to evaluate geographical coverage, and the ways that geographical discourse is expressed, in historical texts.
AB - In this paper we use network analysis to identify qualitative “neighbors” for toponyms in an eighteenth-century French encyclopedia, but could apply to any entry-based text with annotated toponyms. This method draws on relations in a corpus of articles, which improves disambiguation at a later stage with an external resource. We suggest the network as an alternative to geospatial representation, a useful proxy when no historical gazetteer exists for the source material’s period. Our first experiments have shown that this approach goes beyond a simple text analysis and is able to find relations between toponyms that are not co-occurring in the same documents. Network relations are also usefully compared with disambiguated toponyms to evaluate geographical coverage, and the ways that geographical discourse is expressed, in historical texts.
KW - Digital Humanities
KW - Geographic Information Retrieval
KW - Toponym disambiguation
U2 - 10.1145/3356991.3365471
DO - 10.1145/3356991.3365471
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
SN - 9781450369602
SP - 3:1-3:4
BT - Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Humanities, GeoHumanities 2019
A2 - Martins, Bruno
A2 - Moncla, Ludovic
A2 - Murrieta-Flores, Patricia
ER -