Discovering accounts of Native American burning within digitized historical documents using information retrieval methods

Discovering accounts of Native American burning within digitized historical documents using information retrieval methods
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使用信息检索方法在数字化历史文献中发现美洲原住民焚烧的记录

DOI:
10.1007/s00334-019-00753-2
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发表时间:
2020
影响因子:
2.5
通讯作者:
Oldendorf, M.E.
Oldendorf, M.E.
中科院分区:
地球科学3区
文献类型:
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作者:
Tulowiecki, S.J.;Williams, S.V.;Oldendorf, M.E.

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历史记载(约17 - 19世纪)对于了解过去美洲原住民文化如何以及在何处使用火作为土地管理工具是有价值的。以前的研究已经汇编和解释了帐户,但汇编它们的方法仍然不太系统,留下了未发现帐户存在的可能性。本研究利用资讯撷取的方法,以数位化的历史文献来定位美洲原住民燃烧的记录。利用已知的帐户从数字化文件,本研究开发了一个模型,排名未读的文件中的文本部分的基础上,其预测的相关性。该模型使用关键术语和相关文本特征的频率作为预测因子,并将文本部分中帐户的存在和不存在作为因变量。在121份与美国西部纽约州(NYS)有关的文件中,本研究发现了40个账户,其中28个在纽约州西部。在纽约州西部的记录中,有12个记录(描述了21个地点)与美洲原住民的燃烧有明确的联系,可以解析到城镇级别或更高的分辨率,并且不是其他文本的衍生物。为了定位所有已知的帐户,该模型将需要阅读的文本数量减少到仅占总数的0.61%。燃烧地点距离最近的美洲原住民村庄地区0.0至16.2公里(中位数= 5.6公里),距离最近的小径0.1至12.5公里(中位数= 1.5公里)。这项研究表明,如何信息检索可以发现美国土著人燃烧的帐户,并建议未被发现的历史帐户存在,可能会推进历史,文化和生态的理解燃烧的做法。
Historical accounts (ca 17th–19th centuriesce) are valuable for understanding how and where past Native American cultures used fire as a land management tool. Previous research has compiled and interpreted accounts, but methods of compiling them remains less systematic, leaving open the possibility that undiscovered accounts exist. This study uses information retrieval methods to locate accounts of Native American burning within digitized historical documents. Utilizing known accounts from digitized documents, this research develops a model to rank text portions within unread documents based on their predicted relevance. The model used frequencies of key terms and related textual features as predictors, and the presence and absence of accounts within text portions as the dependent variable. Within 121 documents related to western New York State (NYS), USA, this study discovered 40 accounts including 28 in western NYS. Of accounts in western NYS, 12 accounts (describing 21 locations) made explicit connections to Native American burning, were resolvable to town-level or finer resolution, and were not derivative of other texts. To locate all known accounts, the model aided in reducing the amount of text to read to only 0.61% of total. Locations of burning were 0.0 to 16.2 km (median = 5.6 km) from the nearest Native American village area, and 0.1 to 12.5 km (median = 1.5 km) from the nearest trail. This study demonstrates how information retrieval can discover accounts of Native American burning, and suggests that undiscovered historical accounts exist that may advance historical, cultural, and ecological understandings of burning practices.
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