Naming the Past: Named Entity and Animacy Recognition in 19th Century Swedish Literature
Lars Borin, Dimitrios Kokkinakis, Leif-Jöran Olsson · 2007
This paper provides a description and evaluation of a generic named-entity recognition (NER) system for Swedish applied to electronic versions of Swedish literary classics from the 19th century. We discuss the challenges posed by these texts and the necessary adaptations introduced into the NER system in order to achieve accurate results, useful both for metadata generation, but also for the enhancement of the searching and browsing capabilities of Litteraturbanken, the Swedish Literature Bank, an ongoing cultural heritage project which aims to digitize significant works of Swedish literature.