Title
BiographyNet: Methodological Issues when NLP supports historical research.
Abstract
When NLP is used to support research in the humanities, new methodological issues come into play. NLP methods may introduce a bias in their analysis that can influence the results of the hypothesis a humanities scholar is testing. This paper addresses this issue in the context of BiographyNet a multi-disciplinary project involving NLP, Linked Data and history. We introduce the project to the NLP community. We argue that it is essential for historians to get insight into the provenance of information, including how information was extracted from text by NLP tools.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2014
LREC 2014 - NINTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION
Digital history,provenance modeling,Linked Data
Field
DocType
Citations 
Computer science,Linked data,Comparative historical research,Artificial intelligence,Natural language processing
Conference
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.63
9
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Antske Fokkens16312.75
Serge Ter Braake2142.46
Niels Ockeloen3162.84
Piek Vossen438761.59
Susan Legêne5403.44
Guus Schreiber61448150.58