EncycNet: Historisch-enzyklopädisches Informationssystem

项目提案的主题是将各种百科全书和词典整合到一个综合信息系统中的开发技术，特别是历史百科全书和词典。其结果是一个“历史维基百科”，在历时概念图的基础上组织，并受到语义网络（如WordNet）功能的启发。其目的是分析和整合异构的百科全书作品的概念，即追溯不同的引理，术语和专有名称到它们的共同实体，并将其注释的内容划分为不同的概念和语义类。在确定实体的基础上，1)生成同步维度和历时维度的概念图，2)建立实体及其相互关系的知识层次。生成的本体对应于一个信息系统，该系统允许对整个百科全书集合进行详细查询和推断。每个实体应该被分配到它在Wikipedia/DBpedia中的等量物，一个标准文件（GND）或至少一个来自Wikipedia分类系统的语义类。开发是在历史德语文本集合的基础上进行的，但由此产生的索引技术和数据模型原则上也适用于创建多语言系统，而不限于百科全书的文本类型。由于信息提取的深度，时间维度的建模和直接从历史材料中归纳的形式化知识库，这样的百科全书网络是一种新颖的资源，能够在人文科学和计算机科学之间的界面上持久地改变研究界的工作。

Subject of the project proposal are development techniques for the integration of various - especially historical - encyclopedias and lexicons into a comprehensive information system. The result is a "historical Wikipedia", organized on the basis of a diachronic concept graph and inspired by the functionality of semantic networks (e. g. WordNet).The aim is to analyse and integrate heterogeneous encyclopaedic works at the level of the concepts discussed in them, i.e. trace back different lemmas, terms and proper names to their common entities and to divide the content of their glosses into different concepts and semantic classes. On the basis of the thus determined entities, 1) a concept graph in its synchronous and diachronic dimension is then generated, and 2) a hierarchy of entities and knowledge about their relations to each other is established. The resulting ontology corresponds to an information system that allows detailed queries and inferences about the entire encyclopedia collection. Each entity should be assigned to its equivalent in Wikipedia/DBpedia, a standard file (GND) or at least one semantic class from the Wikipedia category system. The development is carried out on the basis of a collection of historical German-language texts, but the resulting indexing techniques and data models are in principle also suitable for the creation of a multilingual system and are not limited to the text type of the encyclopaedia. Due to the depth of the information extraction, the modelling of the temporal dimension and the induction of a formalised knowledge base directly from historical material, such an encyclopaedia-network is a novel resource capable of lastingly changing the work of research communities at the interface between the humanities and computer science.