Visualization of Relationships among Historical Persons from Japanese Historical Documents
Visualization of Relationships among Historical Persons from Japanese Historical Documents
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日本历史文献中历史人物关系的可视化
DOI：
10.1093/llc/fqs045
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发表时间：
2013
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and Akira Maeda
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作者：
Fuminori Kiumra;Takahiko Osaki;Taro Tezuka;and Akira Maeda
近年来，日本历史文献的数字化在日本人文领域引起了很大的关注，许多文献已经以数字化文本格式提供。然而，这些文件的文本分析很少做，主要是由于缺乏自然语言处理工具，可以处理前现代日语。在这篇文章中，我们提出了一种方法来提取和可视化的人之间的关系，从日本的历史文件的辅助信息，如个人的名字和地名索引。该方法的目标是提取历史人物之间的动态关系。该方法利用位置信息，以获得潜在的人之间的关系的基础上，他们的空间活动。所提出的方法是适用于日本的历史编年史写在12世纪。实验结果表明，一个强大的对应关系，已知的历史事实，和日本历史的研究人员完成的用户调查的结果表明，该方法作为一种新的方法在人文领域的一些潜力。
Digitization of Japanese historical documents has gained much attraction in the field of humanities in Japan recently, and numbers of documents are already available in digitized text format. However, text analysis of these documents has rarely been done mainly due to the lack of natural language processing tools that can handle pre-modern Japanese. In this article, we propose a method to extract and visualize the relationships among persons from Japanese historical documents with an aid of supplementary information such as personal name and place name indices. The goal of the method is to extract dynamics of relationships among historical persons. The method utilizes locational information to obtain latent relationships among persons based on their spatial activities. The proposed method is applied to a Japanese historical chronicle written in the 12th century. Experimental results showed a strong correspondence to the known historical facts, and the results of a user survey completed by researchers of Japanese history demonstrated some potential for the method to serve as a new approach in the fields of humanities.