Automatic link-detection in Encoded Archival Descriptions
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| Publication date | 2008 |
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| 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 |
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| Event | Digital Humanities 2008 (Oulu, Finland) |
| Pages (from-to) | 226-228 |
| Publisher | Oulo: University of Oulu, English Philology |
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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.
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| Document type | Conference contribution |
| Published at | http://www.ekl.oulu.fi/dh2008/Digital%20Humanities%202008%20Book%20of%20Abstracts.pdf |
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