Named Entity Recognition for Distant Reading in ELTeC

Francesca Frontini (1) , Carmen Brando (2) , Joanna Byszuk (3) , Ioana Galleron (4) , Diana Santos (5) , Ranka Stanković (6)

1 Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, CNR
2 CRH (UMR 8558 CNRS / EHESS) - Centre de Recherches Historiques (CRH) _ Unité Mixte de Recherches (UMR 8558 CNRS / EHESS)
3 PAN - Polska Akademia Nauk = Polish Academy of Sciences = Académie polonaise des sciences
4 Lattice - Lattice - Langues, Textes, Traitements informatiques, Cognition - UMR 8094
5 UiO - University of Oslo
6 University of Belgrade [Belgrade]

The "Distant Reading for European Literary History" COST Action, which started in 2017, has among its main objectives the creation of an open source, multilingual European Literary Text Collection (ELTeC). In this paper we present the work carried out to manually annotate a selection of the ELTeC collection for Named Entities, as well as to evaluate existing NER tools as to their capacity to reproduce such annotation. In the final paragraph, points of contact between this initiative and CLARIN are discussed.

Domaines: Informatique et langage [cs.CL]

Francesca Frontini, Carmen Brando, Joanna Byszuk, Ioana Galleron, Diana Santos, et al.. Named Entity Recognition for Distant Reading in ELTeC. CLARIN Annual Conference 2020, Oct 2020, Virtual Event, France. ⟨hal-03160438⟩