Papers by Pierre Nugues
Connecting a French Dictionary from the Beginning of the 20th Century to Wikidata (2022.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | The Petit Larousse illustré is a French dictionary first published in 1905 . its value remains intact, but some descriptions are more historical than contemporary . wikidata identifiers can be used to identify, compare, and verify historically-situated representations . |
| Approach: | They propose a wikidata-based annotation of the Petit Larousse illustré entries from 1905 . they link the entries to current data sources and use them to extract, complement, and process knowledge. |
| Outcome: | The proposed lexical resource connects dictionary entries from 1905 to current data sources. |
Hedwig: A Named Entity Linker (2020.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Named entity linking is the task of identifying mentions of named things in text . e.g., "Barack Obama" or "New York" are examples of named entities . |
| Approach: | They propose an end-to-end named entity linker that uses BILSTM models for mention detection and a PageRank algorithm for entity linking. |
| Outcome: | The proposed named entity linker performs better than the previous generation, and is trilingually better. |
Linking, Searching, and Visualizing Entities in Wikipedia (L18-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing systems to extract, index, search, and visualize entities in Wikipedia are not strings, but unique identifiers from Wikidata. |
| Approach: | They propose a system to extract, index, search, and visualize entities in Wikipedia . they use a document model to store linguistic annotations and a string matching engine . |
| Outcome: | The proposed system achieves CEAFm scores of 70.0 on English, 64.4 on Chinese, and 66.5 on Spanish. |
Linking Named Entities in Diderot’s Encyclopédie to Wikidata (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | Encyclopédie was published between 1751 and 1772 and aimed to collect the knowledge of its time. |
| Approach: | They describe the annotation of more than 9,100 Encyclopédie entries with Wikidata identifiers . they extract all geographic entries and annotate 8,300 entries having a geographic content only. |
| Outcome: | The annotation process and application examples are presented in this paper. |
Mapping the Past: Geographically Linking an Early 20th Century Swedish Encyclopedia with Wikidata (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | The Nordisk Familjebok encyclopedia is one of the most extensive encyclopepedias in the world. |
| Approach: | They propose to extract location entries from the Nordisk Familjebok encyclopedia from the early 20th century, focusing on the second edition called Uggleupplagan. |
| Outcome: | The extracted locations were found to be located within Sweden, Germany, and the United Kingdom. |