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- Mining dates from historical documents
- Author(s)
- McKay, Dana; Cunningham, Sally Jo
- Abstract
- The essential quality of information in a digital library is accessibility. Full text search is not enough for some collections, more can be done. Historical collections, for example, contain dates and it would be useful to historians to be able to search by them. However, these dates may occur anywhere within the text of historical documents, and to be searchd they must be extracted from the documents and integrated into the collection index. Doing this manually is very expensive, and described here is a system to do it automatically. This system was implemented within the Greenstone framework used by the New Zealand Digital Library, and involved the use of some carefully designed heuristics.
- Publication Type
- Conference paper
- Source
- [Proceedings] Computing Arts 2001 : Digital Resources for Research in the Humanities, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 26-28 September 2001
- Publication Year
- 2001
- Keyword(s)
- Digital libraries; Greenstone; Metadata extraction; Text-mining
- Publisher
- University of Sydney
- Language
- English
- Publisher URL
- http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/drrh2001/papers/mckay_cunningham.pdf
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2001 Dana McKay and Sally Jo Cunningham. Paper reproduced here with the kind permission of the publisher.
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