Hacking history via event extraction
Roxane Segers, Marieke van Erp, Lourens van der Meij, Lora M. Aroyo, Jacco van Ossenbruggen, Guus Schreiber, Bob J. Wielinga, Johan Oomen, Geertje Jacobs · 2011
Within cultural heritage collections, objects are often grounded in a particular historical setting. This setting can currently not be made explicit, as structured descriptions of events are either missing or not marked up explicitly. This paper reports a study on automatic extraction of an historical event thesaurus from unstructured texts. We show how this preliminary thesaurus accommodates event- and object-driven search and browsing of two cultural heritage collections.