Exploratory information extraction from a historical dictionary

Resumo

We describe a preliminary project of extracting information from an extant dictionary of historical biographies, the 'Dicionário Histórico-Biográfico Brasileiro' (the Brazilian Historical and Biographical Dictionary, shortened as DHBB), a longstanding project at the 'Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação de História Contemporânea do Brasil' (CPDOC) of the Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV). For information extraction, we rely on Natural Language Processing tools such as FreeLing as well as our resources NomLex-PT, a lexicon of nominalizations, and OpenWN-PT, a Portuguese version of Princeton's WordNet database. While our project currently highlights the potential of information extraction in a fun exploratory manner, we also discuss the engaging of historians interested in the affordances of digital tools. © 2014 IEEE.

Ficha do documento

Tipo

Artigo científico

Ano

2014

Instituição

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

Fonte

Repositório da FGV

Idioma

Inglês

Acesso

Acesso aberto

DOI

10.1109/eScience.2014.50

Identificador

oai:repositorio.fgv.br:10438/25272

Temas

Tecnologia

Palavras-chave

Biographical dictionaryInformation extractionNlpNominalizationNomLexWordnetBiographiesDigital devicesNatural language processing systemsOntologyAffordancesDigital toolsExtracting informationNatural language processing toolsInformation retrievalCiências sociaisLíngua portuguesa - LexicografiaHistória - DicionáriosBiografia