Bootstrapping a historical commodities lexicon with SKOS and DBpedia

Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities, LaTeCH 2014 at the 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 13-21

  Klein, Ewan ^a   Alex, Beatrice ^a   Clifford, Jim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

DBPEDIA; HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS; NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION; NOVEL DOMAIN; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; SEMANTIC-WEB TECHNIQUES; TEXT VISUALIZATION; TEXT-MINING; TRAINING MATERIAL; WORD LISTS;

COMMERCE;

EID: 84901626031     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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