Entity Extraction

Viewsari uses the translated English edition of The Lives for all knowledge extraction and engineering steps. Gaston C. Du Vere wrote said translation in 1912 based on the 1568 edition. A digital edition of Du Vere’s translation is available in ten volumes, each containing a subset of all biographies. For entity extraction, the previous project team conducted experiments on entity recognition and entity linking They extracted the following entities: persons, organizations, places, and miscellaneous (all following the CoNLL 2003 dataset, partially linked to Wikidata), as well as artwork references, motifs, terms, and dates. In another project step, they modeled relationships between artists through co-reference resolution and statistical association from the cooccurrence of names in paragraphs to create the social network.

In Viewsari, we plan to extend this example set of entities through further extraction steps.