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| Title | Event Models for Historical Perspectives: Determining Relations between High and Low Level Events in Text, Based on the Classification of Time, Location and Participants. |
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| Authors | Agata Cybulska and Piek Vossen |
| Abstract | In this paper, we report on a study that was performed within the “Semanticsof History” project on how descriptions of historical events are realized indifferent types of text and what the implications are for modeling the eventinformation. We believe that different historical perspectives of writerscorrespond in some degree with genre distinction and correlate with variationin language use. To capture differences between event representations indiverse text types and thus to identify relations between historical events, wedefined an event model. We observed clear relations between particular parts ofevent descriptions - actors, time and location modifiers. Texts, writtenshortly after an event happened, use more specific and uniquely occurring eventdescriptions than texts describing the same events but written from a longertime perspective. We carried out some statistical corpus research to confirmthis hypothesis. The ability to automatically determine relations betweenhistorical events and their sub-events over textual data, based on therelations between event participants, time markers and locations, will haveimportant repercussions for the design of historical information retrievalsystems. |
| Language | Information Extraction, Information Retrieval |
| Topics | Lexicon, lexical database, Text mining, Information Extraction, Information Retrieval |
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Event Models for Historical Perspectives: Determining Relations between High and Low Level Events in Text, Based on the Classification of Time, Location and Participants. |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{CYBULSKA10.205, author = {Agata Cybulska and Piek Vossen}, title = {Event Models for Historical Perspectives: Determining Relations between High and Low Level Events in Text, Based on the Classification of Time, Location and Participants.}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)}, year = {2010}, month = {may}, date = {19-21}, address = {Valletta, Malta}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair), Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odjik, Stelios Piperidis, Mike Rosner, Daniel Tapias}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {2-9517408-6-7}, language = {english} } |