A Dataset for Toponym Resolution in Nineteenth-Century English Newspapers

Journal of Open Humanities Data

Daniel C. S. Wilson¹  David Beavan¹  Jon Lawrence¹  Kaspar Beelen²  Katherine McDonough²  Kasra Hosseini²  Daniel van Strien²  Mariona Coll Ardanuy²  Federico Nanni³ 

[1] Queen Mary University of London, London;The Alan Turing Institute, London;The University of Exeter, Exeter;

关键词: benchmark;    dataset;    geographic information retrieval;    newspapers;    nineteenth-century english;    toponym resolution;   

DOI  :  10.5334/johd.56

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

We present a new dataset for the task of toponym resolution in digitized historical newspapers in English. It consists of 343 annotated articles from newspapers based in four different locations in England (Manchester, Ashton-under-Lyne, Poole and Dorchester), published between 1780 and 1870. The articles have been manually annotated with mentions of places, which are linked—whenever possible—to their corresponding entry on Wikipedia. The dataset consists of 3,364 annotated toponyms, of which 2,784 have been provided with a link to Wikipedia. The dataset is published in the British Library shared research repository, and is especially of interest to researchers working on improving semantic access to historical newspaper content.

【 授权许可】

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