Visualizing and Analyzing Networks of Named Entities in Biographical Dictionaries for Digital Humanities Research

Minna Tamper; Petri Leskinen; Eero Hyvönen

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-24337-0_15

Visualizing and Analyzing Networks of Named Entities in Biographical Dictionaries for Digital Humanities Research

Minna Tamper^*, Petri Leskinen, Eero Hyvönen

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University of Helsinki

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Abstract

This paper shows how named entity extraction and networkanalysis can be used to examine biographies individually and in groupsto aid historians in biographical and prosopographical research. For this purpose a reference network of 13 100 biographies in the collections ofthe Biographical Centre of the Finnish Literature Society was created, based on links between the biographies as well as automatically extracted named entities found in the texts. The data was published in a SPARQL endpoint as a Linked Data knowledge graph on top of which network analytic tools were created and analysis were done showing the usefulness of the approach in Digital Humanities. The reference graph has been utilized for network analysis to examine egocentric networks of individual persons as well as networks among groups of people in prosopography. The data and tools presented are in use since autumn 2018 in the semantic portal BiographySampo that has had tens of thousands of users.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing - 20th International Conference, CICLing 2019, Revised Selected Papers
Editors	Alexander Gelbukh
Publisher	Springer
Pages	199-214
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-031-24337-0
ISBN (Print)	978-3-031-24336-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24337-0_15
Publication status	Published - 2023
MoE publication type	A4 Conference publication
Event	International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing - La Rochelle, France Duration: 7 Apr 2019 → 13 Apr 2019 Conference number: 20

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Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume	13451
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing
Abbreviated title	CICLing
Country/Territory	France
City	La Rochelle
Period	07/04/2019 → 13/04/2019

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Tamper, M., Leskinen, P., & Hyvönen, E. (2023). Visualizing and Analyzing Networks of Named Entities in Biographical Dictionaries for Digital Humanities Research. In A. Gelbukh (Ed.), Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing - 20th International Conference, CICLing 2019, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 199-214). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 13451). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24337-0_15

Tamper, Minna ; Leskinen, Petri ; Hyvönen, Eero. / Visualizing and Analyzing Networks of Named Entities in Biographical Dictionaries for Digital Humanities Research. Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing - 20th International Conference, CICLing 2019, Revised Selected Papers. editor / Alexander Gelbukh. Springer, 2023. pp. 199-214 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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Tamper, M, Leskinen, P & Hyvönen, E 2023, Visualizing and Analyzing Networks of Named Entities in Biographical Dictionaries for Digital Humanities Research. in A Gelbukh (ed.), Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing - 20th International Conference, CICLing 2019, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 13451, Springer, pp. 199-214, International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing , La Rochelle, France, 07/04/2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24337-0_15

Visualizing and Analyzing Networks of Named Entities in Biographical Dictionaries for Digital Humanities Research. / Tamper, Minna; Leskinen, Petri ; Hyvönen, Eero.
Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing - 20th International Conference, CICLing 2019, Revised Selected Papers. ed. / Alexander Gelbukh. Springer, 2023. p. 199-214 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 13451).

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