Title
Deriving Players & Themes in the Regesta Imperii using SVMs and Neural Networks.
Abstract
The Regesta Imperii (RI) are an important source for research in European-medieval history. Sources spread over many centuries of medieval history ‐ mainly charters of German-Roman Emperors ‐ are summarized as “Regests” and pooled in the RI. Interesting medieval demographic groups and players are i.a. cities, citizens or spiritual institutions (e.g. bishops or monasteries). Themes of historical interest are i.a. peace and war or the endowment of new privileges. We investigate the RI for important players and themes, applying state-of-the-art text classification methods from computational linguistics. We examine the performance of different classification methods in view of the linguistically very heterogeneous RI, including a Neural Network approach that is designed to capture complex interactions between players and themes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.18653/v1/W16-2108
LaTeCH@ACL
Field
DocType
Volume
Bishops,Endowment,Sociology,Computational linguistics,Support vector machine,Artificial intelligence,Artificial neural network,Linguistics
Conference
W16-21
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
6
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Juri Opitz127.11
Anette Frank26311.94