EncycNet: Historisch-enzyklopädisches Informationssystem

该项目提案的主题是将各种特别是历史性的百科全书和词汇纳入一个综合信息系统的开发技术。其结果是一个“历史维基百科”，组织在历时概念图的基础上，并受到语义网络功能的启发（例如：G.其目的是在所讨论的概念层面上分析和整合异质的百科全书，即追溯不同的词元、术语和专有名称到它们的共同实体，并将它们的注释内容划分为不同的概念和语义类别。基于这样确定的实体，1）然后生成在其同步和历时维度中的概念图，以及2）建立实体和关于它们彼此关系的知识的层级。由此产生的本体对应于一个信息系统，允许对整个百科全书集合进行详细的查询和推断。每个实体都应该被分配到维基百科/DBpedia中的等价物，一个标准文件（GND）或至少一个来自维基百科分类系统的语义类。开发工作是在收集历史上的德语文本的基础上进行的，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种系统，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出正式的知识库，这样一个百科全书网络是一种新的资源，能够持久地改变人文科学和计算机科学之间的界面上的研究社区的工作。

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.