Geotagging a Diachronic Corpus of Alpine Texts: Comparing Distinct Approaches to Toponym Recognition
Tannon Kew, Anastassia Shaitarova, Isabel Meraner, Janis Goldzycher, Simon Clematide, Martin Volk
Abstract
Geotagging historic and cultural texts provides valuable access to heritage data, enabling location-based searching and new geographically related discoveries. In this paper, we describe two distinct approaches to geotagging a variety of fine-grained toponyms in a diachronic corpus of alpine texts. By applying a traditional gazetteer-based approach, aided by a few simple heuristics, we attain strong high-precision annotations. Using the output of this earlier system, we adopt a state-of-the-art neural approach in order to facilitate the detection of new toponyms on the basis of context. Additionally, we present the results of preliminary experiments on integrating a small amount of crowdsourced annotations to improve overall performance of toponym recognition in our heritage corpus.- Anthology ID:
- W19-9003
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Workshop on Language Technology for Digital Historical Archives
- Month:
- September
- Year:
- 2019
- Address:
- Varna, Bulgaria
- Editors:
- Cristina Vertan, Petya Osenova, Dimitar Iliev
- Venue:
- RANLP
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- INCOMA Ltd.
- Note:
- Pages:
- 11–18
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/W19-9003
- DOI:
- 10.26615/978-954-452-059-5_003
- Cite (ACL):
- Tannon Kew, Anastassia Shaitarova, Isabel Meraner, Janis Goldzycher, Simon Clematide, and Martin Volk. 2019. Geotagging a Diachronic Corpus of Alpine Texts: Comparing Distinct Approaches to Toponym Recognition. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Language Technology for Digital Historical Archives, pages 11–18, Varna, Bulgaria. INCOMA Ltd..
- Cite (Informal):
- Geotagging a Diachronic Corpus of Alpine Texts: Comparing Distinct Approaches to Toponym Recognition (Kew et al., RANLP 2019)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/teach-a-man-to-fish/W19-9003.pdf