Classifying Named Entities in an Alpine Heritage Corpus
Martin Volk, Noah Bubenhofer, Adrian Althaus, Maya Bangerter · Künstliche Intell. · 2009
In the project “Text+Berg we digitize and archive the heritage of alpine literature from various European countries. In a first step our group digitizes all yearbooks of the Swiss Alpine Club from 1864 until today. The books comprise articles in German, French and Italian, a total of around 100.000 pages. This paper describes the corpus and the project phases towards its digitalization. We then focus on the classification of named entities, in particular person names and geographic entities.