CHisIEC: An Information Extraction Corpus for Ancient Chinese History (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | Historical and cultural heritage preservation is an important branch of digital humanities, where the rich tapestry of the past meets the cutting-edge tools of the digital age. |
| Approach: | They present a dataset to evaluate NER and RE tasks in ancient Chinese history . they use four distinct entity types and twelve relation types to identify them . |
| Outcome: | The "Chinese Historical Information Extraction Corpus" is a dataset from 13 dynasties spanning over 1830 years . the dataset encompasses four distinct entity types and twelve relation types . |
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