Computational Analysis of Historical Documents: An Application to Italian War Bulletins in World War I and II
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Boschetti, Federico
Cimino, Andrea
Dell'Orletta, Felice
Lebani, Gianluca
Passaro, Lucia
Picchi, Paolo
Venturi, Giulia
Montemagni, Simonetta
Lenci, Alessandro
Type
Publication
Proceedings of the LREC 2014 Workshop on Language Resources and Technologies for Processing and Linking Historical Documents and Archives (LRT4HDA 2014)
Abstract
World War (WW) I and II represent crucial landmarks in the history on mankind: They have affected the destiny of whole generations and their consequences are still alive throughout Europe. In this paper we present an ongoing project to carry out a computational analysis of Italian war bulletins in WWI and WWII, by applying state-of-the-art tools for NLP and Information Extraction. The annotated texts and extracted information will be explored with a dedicated Web interface, allowing for multidimensional access and exploration of historical events through space and time.