Toponym disambiguation in historical documents using network analysis of qualitative relationships

McDonough, Katherine (2019) Toponym disambiguation in historical documents using network analysis of qualitative relationships. In: Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Humanities, GeoHumanities 2019 :. UNSPECIFIED, 3:1-3:4. ISBN 9781450369602

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Abstract

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.

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Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings
Uncontrolled Keywords:
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Subjects:
?? digital humanitiesgeographic information retrievaltoponym disambiguationcomputer graphics and computer-aided designcomputer vision and pattern recognitioninformation systems ??
ID Code:
191166
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Deposited On:
22 May 2023 11:20
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Yes
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Published
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16 Jul 2024 05:18