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When was it written? automatically determining publication dates

Authors:

Anne Garcia-Fernandez,

Anne-Laure Ligozat,

Marco Dinarelli,

Delphine BernhardAuthors Info & Claims

SPIRE'11: Proceedings of the 18th international conference on String processing and information retrieval

Pages 221 - 236

Published: 17 October 2011 Publication History

Abstract

Automatically determining the publication date of a document is a complex task, since a document may contain only few intratextual hints about its publication date. Yet, it has many important applications. Indeed, the amount of digitized historical documents is constantly increasing, but their publication dates are not always properly identified via OCR acquisition. Accurate knowledge about publication dates is crucial for many applications, e.g. studying the evolution of documents topics over a certain period of time.

In this article, we present a method for automatically determining the publication dates of documents, which was evaluated on a French newspaper corpus in the context of the DEFT 2011 evaluation campaign. Our system is based on a combination of different individual systems, relying both on supervised and unsupervised learning, and uses several external resources, e.g. Wikipedia, Google Books Ngrams, and etymological background knowledge about the French language. Our system detects the correct year of publication in 10% of the cases for 300-word excerpts and in 14% of the cases for 500-word excerpts, which is very promising given the complexity of the task.

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SPIRE'11: Proceedings of the 18th international conference on String processing and information retrieval

October 2011

425 pages

ISBN:9783642245824

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Roberto Grossi
Università di Pisa, Dipartimento di Informatica, Pisa, Italy
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Fabrizio Sebastiani
Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologia dell'Informazione, "Alessandro Faedo", Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa, Italy
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Fabrizio Silvestri
Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologia dell'Informazione, "Alessandro Faedo", Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa, Italy

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Jatowt ACampos RLim EWinslett MSanderson MFu ASun JCulpepper SLo EHo JDonato DAgrawal RZheng YCastillo CSun ATseng VLi C(2017)Interactive System for Reasoning about Document AgeProceedings of the 2017 ACM on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management10.1145/3132847.3133166(2471-2474)Online publication date: 6-Nov-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3132847.3133166
Jatowt AKawai DTanaka KAdam NCassel BYesha YFuruta RWeigle M(2016)Digital History Meets WikipediaProceedings of the 16th ACM/IEEE-CS on Joint Conference on Digital Libraries10.1145/2910896.2910911(17-26)Online publication date: 19-Jun-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2910896.2910911
Campos RDias GJorge AJatowt A(2014)Survey of Temporal Information Retrieval and Related ApplicationsACM Computing Surveys10.1145/261908847:2(1-41)Online publication date: 25-Aug-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2619088
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