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Named Entity Linking in a Complex Domain: Case Second World War History

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Language, Data, and Knowledge (LDK 2017)

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Abstract

This paper discusses the challenges of applying named entity linking in a rich, complex domain – specifically, the linking of (1) military units, (2) places and (3) people in the context of interlinked Second World War data. Multiple sub-scenarios are discussed in detail through concrete evaluations, analyzing the problems faced, and the solutions developed. A key contribution of this work is to highlight the heterogeneity of problems and approaches needed even inside a single domain, depending on both the source data as well as the target authority.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    http://www.ldf.fi/dataset/warsa.

  2. 2.

    http://sotasampo.fi/en/.

  3. 3.

    http://kronos.narc.fi/kartta/kartta.html.

  4. 4.

    http://www.maanmittauslaitos.fi/en/digituotteet/geographic-names.

  5. 5.

    http://cidoc-crm.org.

  6. 6.

    http://www.kansallisbiografia.fi/english/.

  7. 7.

    https://github.com/jiemakel/arpa/.

  8. 8.

    http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~fkarlsso/genkau2.html.

  9. 9.

    https://github.com/jiemakel/arpa/.

  10. 10.

    https://github.com/SemanticComputing/python-arpa-linker, with the Warsampo configurations at https://github.com/SemanticComputing/warsa-linkers.

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Our work is funded by the Open Science and Research Initiative (http://openscience.fi/) of the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture, the Finnish Cultural Foundation, and the Academy of Finland

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    Erkki Heino, Minna Tamper, Eetu Mäkelä, Petri Leskinen, Esko Ikkala, Jouni Tuominen, Mikko Koho & Eero Hyvönen

  2. HELDIG – Helsinki Centre for Digital Humanities, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

    Erkki Heino, Minna Tamper, Eetu Mäkelä, Petri Leskinen, Esko Ikkala, Jouni Tuominen, Mikko Koho & Eero Hyvönen

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Heino, E. et al. (2017). Named Entity Linking in a Complex Domain: Case Second World War History. In: Gracia, J., Bond, F., McCrae, J., Buitelaar, P., Chiarcos, C., Hellmann, S. (eds) Language, Data, and Knowledge. LDK 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10318. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59888-8_10

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