Mining semantics for culturomics: towards a knowledge-based approach
(2013) International workshop on Mining unstructured big data using natural language processing, MNLP '13 p.3-10- Abstract
- The massive amounts of text data made available through the Google Books digitization project have inspired a new field of big-data textual research. Named culturomics, this field has attracted the attention of a growing number of scholars over recent years. However, initial studies based on these data have been criticized for not referring to relevant work in linguistics and language technology. This paper provides some ideas, thoughts and first steps towards a new culturomics initiative, based this time on Swedish data, which pursues a more knowledge-based approach than previous work in this emerging field. The amount of new Swedish text produced daily and older texts being digitized in cultural heritage projects grows at an accelerating... (More)
- The massive amounts of text data made available through the Google Books digitization project have inspired a new field of big-data textual research. Named culturomics, this field has attracted the attention of a growing number of scholars over recent years. However, initial studies based on these data have been criticized for not referring to relevant work in linguistics and language technology. This paper provides some ideas, thoughts and first steps towards a new culturomics initiative, based this time on Swedish data, which pursues a more knowledge-based approach than previous work in this emerging field. The amount of new Swedish text produced daily and older texts being digitized in cultural heritage projects grows at an accelerating rate. These volumes of text being available in digital form have grown far beyond the capacity of human readers, leaving automated semantic processing of the texts as the only realistic option for accessing and using the information contained in them. The aim of our recently initiated research program is to advance the state of the art in language technology resources and methods for semantic processing of Big Swedish text and focus on the theoretical and methodological advancement of the state of the art in extracting and correlating information from large volumes of Swedish text using a combination of knowledge-based and statistical methods. (Less)
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- Lars, Borin ; Devdatt, Dubhashi ; Markus, Forsberg ; Johansson, Richard ; Dimitrios, Kokkinakis and Nugues, Pierre LU
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- 2013
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- UnstructureNLP '13 Proceedings of the 2013 international workshop on Mining unstructured big data using natural language processing
- pages
- 3 - 10
- publisher
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
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- International workshop on Mining unstructured big data using natural language processing, MNLP '13
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- 2013-10-28
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- scopus:84889587228
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- 978-1-4503-2415-1
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- 10.1145/2513549.2513551
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- English
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