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Entity Linking for Historical Documents: Challenges and Solutions

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Named entities (NEs) are among the most relevant type of information that can be used to efficiently index and retrieve digital documents. Furthermore, the use of Entity Linking (EL) to disambiguate and relate NEs to knowledge bases, provides supplementary information which can be useful to differentiate ambiguous elements such as geographical locations and peoples' names. In historical documents, the detection and disambiguation of NEs is a challenge. Most historical documents are converted into plain text using an optical character recognition (OCR) system at the expense of some noise. Documents in digital libraries will, therefore, be indexed with errors that may hinder their accessibility. OCR errors affect not only document indexing but the detection, disambiguation, and linking of NEs. This paper aims at analysing the performance of different EL approaches on two multilingual historical corpora, CLEF HIPE 2020 (English, French, German) and NewsEye (Finnish, French, German, Swedish), while proposes several techniques for alleviating the impact of historical data problems on the EL task. Our findings indicate that the proposed approaches not only outperform the baseline in both corpora but additionally they considerably reduce the impact of historical document issues on different subjects and languages.
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hal-03034492 , version 1 (01-12-2020)

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Elvys Linhares Pontes, Luis Adrián Cabrera-Diego, Jose G. Moreno, Emanuela Boros, Elvys Linhares Pontes, et al.. Entity Linking for Historical Documents: Challenges and Solutions. 22nd International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2020, 12504, Springer, pp.215-231, 2020, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 978-3-030-64452-9. ⟨10.1007/978-3-030-64452-9_19⟩. ⟨hal-03034492⟩
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