Event-based Access to Historical Italian War Memoirs

Rovera, Marco; Nanni, Federico; Ponzetto, Simone Paolo

doi:10.1145/3406210

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“…Using word embeddings for studying change in historical corpora was introduced by Hamilton et al [17] and Eger and Mehler [10]: however, while their contribution is on determining statistical laws of semantic change in diachronic word embeddings, we focus here instead on whether changes in bias measurements from dense and sparse embeddings align against known historical changes. Despite their enormous popularity, there exist alternatives to word embeddings as methodology to analyze historical corpora, including topic modeling [2], [35] and event extraction [31].…”

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confidence: 99%

Diachronic Analysis of German Parliamentary Proceedings: Ideological Shifts through the Lens of Political Biases

Walter¹,

Kirschner²,

Eger³

et al. 2021

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We analyze bias in historical corpora as encoded in diachronic distributional semantic models by focusing on two specific forms of bias, namely a political (i.e., anti-communism) and racist (i.e., antisemitism) one. For this, we use a new corpus of German parliamentary proceedings, DEUPARL, spanning the period 1867-2020. We complement this analysis of historical biases in diachronic word embeddings with a novel measure of bias on the basis of term co-occurrences and graph-based label propagation. The results of our bias measurements align with commonly perceived historical trends of antisemitic and anticommunist biases in German politics in different time periods, thus indicating the viability of analyzing historical bias trends using semantic spaces induced from historical corpora.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Diachronic Analysis of German Parliamentary Proceedings: Ideological Shifts through the Lens of Political Biases

Walter¹,

Kirschner²,

Eger³

et al. 2021

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“…Нарастващата дигитализация на исторически архиви предоставя нови, често специфични за дадена област, текстови ресурси, които отчитат факти и събития, които са се случили в миналото -сред тях мемоарите са много често срещан тип първоизточник. Основавайки се на семантичното представяне на събития, участници и роли, в (Rovera et al, 2021) се представя подход за извличане на информация от италианските исторически военни мемоари и превръщането ѝ в структурирано знание.…”

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Virtual-Physical Space "Bulgarian Cultural and Historical Heritage"

Stoyanov¹,

Stoyanova-Doycheva²,

Glushkova³

2021

KIN Journal

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The article presents a virtual physical space for storage and presentation of digitized Bulgarian cultural, historical and similar sites. The space is realized with the help of integrated technology, including means of artificial intelligence, enhanced with modern technologies such as IoT (Internet of Things) and CPSS (Cyber-Physical-Social System). The advantages of space compared to the usual approaches for developing this type of systems are discussed. The objects digitized in accordance with the CCO standard (Cataloging Cultural Objects) are stored in a distributed knowledge base, implemented mainly as ontologies. The space provides users with a personal travel guide who is able to understand and fulfill their wishes and preferences. Keywords: Virtual-Physical Space (ViPS); Cataloging Cultural Objects (CCO)

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“…The digitization of newspapers has greatly improved accessibility and clearly changed the nature of historical research, by enabling easier data access and analysis at scale through multilingual semantic data enrichment [7,42,10,6]. Through better document analysis results and semantic enrichment e.g., named entity recognition (NER), relation extraction (RE), event extraction (EE), the quality of the newspaper data offered by the libraries to its users is substantially improved [12,14,13,15].…”

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Experimenting with Unsupervised Multilingual Event Detection in Historical Newspapers

Boroş

Cabrera-Diego

Doucet

2022

From Born-Physical to Born-Virtual: Augmenting Intelligence in Digital Libraries

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To prevent historical knowledge's fading, research in event detection could facilitate access to digitized collections. In this paper, we propose a method for annotating multilingual historical documents for event detection in an unsupervised manner by leveraging entities and semantic notions of event types. We automatically annotate the documents by relying on dependency parse trees and automatic semantic mapping to event-based frames, with a focus on the multilingual transfer between frames and candidate events. The documents are afterward verified by native speakers, Digital Humanities researchers. We also report on experimental results of event detection in historical newspapers with a state-of-the-art model. We demonstrate that our approach allows for easy language adaptation by presenting two study cases with knowledge extracted from German newspapers from 1911 to 1933 regarding events surrounding International Women's Day and from French newspapers between 1900 and 1944 related to the abolition of guillotine executions in France. Our preliminary findings show that this type of approach could alleviate the need for manual annotation by also providing a practical course of action toward unsupervised event detection from multilingual digitized and historical documents.

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Event-based Access to Historical Italian War Memoirs

Cited by 4 publications

References 32 publications

Diachronic Analysis of German Parliamentary Proceedings: Ideological Shifts through the Lens of Political Biases

Diachronic Analysis of German Parliamentary Proceedings: Ideological Shifts through the Lens of Political Biases

Virtual-Physical Space "Bulgarian Cultural and Historical Heritage"

Experimenting with Unsupervised Multilingual Event Detection in Historical Newspapers

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