3 papers
cs.CL2024
Contrastive Entity Coreference and Disambiguation for Historical Texts
Abhishek Arora, Emily Silcock, Leander Heldring +1
Massive-scale historical document collections are crucial for social science research. Despite increasing digitization, these documents typically lack unique cross-document identif…
cs.CL2024
Newswire: A Large-Scale Structured Database of a Century of Historical News
Emily Silcock, Abhishek Arora, Luca D'Amico-Wong +1
In the U.S. historically, local newspapers drew their content largely from newswires like the Associated Press. Historians argue that newswires played a pivotal role in creating a…
cs.CL2024
News Deja Vu: Connecting Past and Present with Semantic Search
Brevin Franklin, Emily Silcock, Abhishek Arora +2
Social scientists and the general public often analyze contemporary events by drawing parallels with the past, a process complicated by the vast, noisy, and unstructured nature of…