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Title | ||
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Putting Dates on the Map: Harvesting and Analyzing Street Names with Date Mentions and their Explanations. |
Abstract | ||
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Street names are not only used across the world as part of addresses, but also reveal a lot about a country's identity. Thus, they are subject to analysis in the fields of geography and social science. There, typically, a manual analysis limited to a small region is performed, e.g., focusing on the renaming of streets in a city after a political change in a country. Surprisingly, there have been hardly any automatic, large-scale studies of street names so far, although this might lead to interesting insights regarding the distribution of particular street name phenomena. In this paper, we present an automated, world-wide analysis of street names with date references. Such temporal streets are frequently used to commemorate important events and thus particularly interesting to study. After applying a multilingual temporal tagger to discover such street names, we analyze their temporal and geographic distributions on different levels of granularity. Furthermore, we present an approach to automatically harvest potential explanations why streets in specific regions refer to particular dates. Despite the challenges of the tasks, our evaluation demonstrates the feasibility of the street extraction and the explanation harvesting.
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Year | DOI | Venue |
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2018 | 10.1145/3197026.3197035 | JCDL |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
computational history,street name analysis,temporal tagging,explanation harvesting,collective memory | Data science,Information retrieval,Computer science,Collective memory,Politics | Conference |
ISSN | ISBN | Citations |
2575-7865 | 978-1-4503-5178-2 | 0 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.34 | 19 | 3 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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| Jannik Strötgen | 1 | 492 | 38.20 |
| Rosita Andrade | 2 | 1 | 0.69 |
| Dhruv Gupta | 3 | 17 | 4.68 |