BiographySampo–publishing and enriching biographies on the semantic web for digital humanities research

E Hyvönen, P Leskinen, M Tamper, H Rantala… - European Semantic …, 2019 - Springer
This paper argues for making a paradigm shift in publishing and using biographical
dictionaries on the web, based on Linked Data. The idea is to provide the user with …

Analyzing biography collections historiographically as linked data: case national biography of Finland

M Tamper, P Leskinen, E Hyvönen, R Valjus… - Semantic …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Biographical collections are available on the Web for close reading. However, the
underlying texts can also be used for data analysis and distant reading, if the documents are …

Novel event detection and classification for historical texts

R Sprugnoli, S Tonelli - Computational Linguistics, 2019 - direct.mit.edu
Event processing is an active area of research in the Natural Language Processing
community, but resources and automatic systems developed so far have mainly addressed …

Once upon a spacetime: Visual storytelling in cognitive and geotemporal information spaces

E Mayr, F Windhager - ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2018 - mdpi.com
Stories are an essential mode, not only of human communication—but also of thinking. This
paper reflects on the internalization of stories from a cognitive perspective and outlines a …

WikiBio: a semantic resource for the intersectional analysis of biographical events

MA Stranisci, R Damiano, E Mensa, V Patti… - ar** through microportrait extraction
A Fokkens, N Ruigrok, C Beukeboom… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - aclanthology.org
Research from communication science has shown that stereotypical ideas are often
reflected in language use. Media coverage of different groups in society influences the …

Reconciling and using historical person registers as linked open data in the AcademySampo portal and data service

P Leskinen, E Hyvönen - International Semantic Web Conference, 2021 - Springer
This paper presents a method for extracting and reassembling a genealogical network
automatically from a biographical register of historical people. The method is applied to a …