Connecting a French Dictionary from the Beginning of the 20th Century to Wikidata
Nugues, Pierre LU
(2022)
13th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022
In 2022 Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022
p.2548-2555
- Abstract
The Petit Larousse illustré is a French dictionary first published in 1905. Its division in two main parts on language and on history and geography corresponds to a major milestone in French lexicography as well as a repository of general knowledge from this period. Although the value of many entries from 1905 remains intact, some descriptions now have a dimension that is more historical than contemporary. They are nonetheless significant to analyze and understand cultural representations from this time. A comparison with more recent information or a verification of these entries would require a tedious manual work. In this paper, we describe a new lexical resource, where we connected all the dictionary entries of the history and... (More)
The Petit Larousse illustré is a French dictionary first published in 1905. Its division in two main parts on language and on history and geography corresponds to a major milestone in French lexicography as well as a repository of general knowledge from this period. Although the value of many entries from 1905 remains intact, some descriptions now have a dimension that is more historical than contemporary. They are nonetheless significant to analyze and understand cultural representations from this time. A comparison with more recent information or a verification of these entries would require a tedious manual work. In this paper, we describe a new lexical resource, where we connected all the dictionary entries of the history and geography part to current data sources. For this, we linked each of these entries to a wikidata identifier. Using the wikidata links, we can automate more easily the identification, comparison, and verification of historically-situated representations. We give a few examples on how to process wikidata identifiers and we carried out a small analysis of the entities described in the dictionary to outline possible applications. The resource, i.e. the annotation of 20,245 dictionary entries with wikidata links, is available from GitHub (https://github.com/pnugues/petit_larousse_1905/).
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- author
- Nugues, Pierre
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2022
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- digital humanities, entity annotation, entity linking
- host publication
- 2022 Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022
- series title
- 2022 Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022
- editor
- Calzolari, Nicoletta ; Bechet, Frederic ; Blache, Philippe ; Choukri, Khalid ; Cieri, Christopher ; Declerck, Thierry ; Goggi, Sara ; Isahara, Hitoshi ; Maegaard, Bente ; Mariani, Joseph ; Mazo, Helene ; Odijk, Jan and Piperidis, Stelios
- pages
- 8 pages
- publisher
- European Language Resources Association
- conference name
- 13th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022
- conference location
- Marseille, France
- conference dates
- 2022-06-20 - 2022-06-25
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- scopus:85144479024
- ISBN
- 9791095546726
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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- d40a62e9-3a50-4301-851a-c370b481ce56
- date added to LUP
- 2023-01-12 10:45:02
- date last changed
- 2023-01-12 10:45:02
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title = {{Connecting a French Dictionary from the Beginning of the 20th Century to Wikidata}},
year = {{2022}},
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