Automatic link-detection in Encoded Archival Descriptions

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Authors
Publication date 2008
Host editors
  • L.L. Opas-Hänninen
  • M. Jokelainen
  • I. Juuso
  • T. Seppänen
Book title Digital humanities 2008: The 20th Joint International Conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, and the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the 1st Joint International Conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Society for Digital Humanities - Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs, University of Oulu, Finland, 24-29 June, 2008: Conference abstracts
ISBN
  • 9789514288388
Event Digital Humanities 2008 (Oulu, Finland)
Pages (from-to) 226-228
Publisher Oulo: University of Oulu, English Philology
Organisations
  • Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
Abstract
In this paper we investigate how currently emerging link detection methods can help enrich encoded archival descriptions. We discuss link detection methods in general, and evaluate the identification of names both within, and across, archival descriptions. Our initial experiments suggest that we can automatically detect occurrences of person names with high accuracy, both within (F-score of 0.9620) and across (F-score of 1) archival descriptions. This allows us to create (pseudo) encoded archival context descriptions that provide novel means of navigation, improving access to the vast amounts of archival data.
Document type Conference contribution
Published at http://www.ekl.oulu.fi/dh2008/Digital%20Humanities%202008%20Book%20of%20Abstracts.pdf
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