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- Michael Lewis, Eljas Oksanen, Frida Ehrnsten, Heikki Rantala, Jouni Tuominen and Eero Hyvönen: The Impact of Human Decision-making on the Research Value of Archaeological Data
- Eero Hyvönen: Digital Humanities on the Semantic Web: from Infrastructure to Practical Applications, AI-based Knowledge Discovery, and Web of Wisdom
- Eero Hyvönen, Petri Leskinen, Henna Poikkimäki, Heikki Rantala, Refael Leal, Jouni Tuominen, Senka Drobac, Ossi Koho, Ilona Pikkanen and Hanna-Leena Paloposki: Searching, exploring, and analyzing historical letters and the underlying networks: LetterSampo Finland – Finnish 19th-Century Letters on the Semantic Web
- Sarah Binta Alam Shoilee, Victor de Boer, Annastiina Ahola, Heikki Rantala, Eero Hyvönen , Jacco van Ossenbruggen and Susan Legene: Bridging Data Gaps: Harnessing Semantic Associations for Knowledge Discovery in Colonial Heritage
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Knowledge Extraction from Natural Language
Case Finnish (and Swedish) Texts |
Knowledge Extraction from Finnish Texts
Goals of Research
In Digital Humanities (DH) the data comes in often in textual form (e.g., news, biographies, articles, novels). When publishing such content as Linked Data for DH analysis, the meaning of literal mentions of entities (such as names of persons and places), concepts, relations, events, topics, etc. have to be extracted from unstructured texts and represented as structured semantic data for the computer. In our own work, for example, such knowledge extraction has been needed when developing the Sampo series of semantic portals.
During this research, various natural language processing (NLP) tools and linguistic datasets have been developed. In our view, such tools and resources should be made openly available on the Web as web services. NLP tools and resources would be an important part of the Linked Open Data Infrastructure for Digital Humanities in Finland.
Services for NLP
More information will appear here later.
Contact Persons
Dr. Cand. Rafael Leal, Aalto University
Prof. Eero Hyvönen, University of Helsinki (HELDIG) and Aalto