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Project

Linking traditional scholarship of the Ancient World with digital tools through Artificial Intelligence

This project aims to provide scholars, peers and publishers the infrastructure to connect the more traditional scholarly literature and the world of digital tools. To do this, we develop and refine algorithms to distill references to ancient sources (inscriptions, papyri, authors, …) from articles and books stored as PDF. Combining a rule-based extraction system with existing gazetteers in Trismegistos, a gold standard will be established. This will then form the basis for more versatile and powerful machine learning techniques.The references to the ancient sources will be harvested for bibliographic purposes but also the PDF will be annotated with a link to the Trismegistos database. This allows the Trismegistos website to offer users direct access to the ancient sources and to serve as a hub to related data and modern literature. As such the platform enhances interdisciplinarity, discloses sources to junior scholars and opens doors to new research opportunities.
Date:1 Oct 2021 →  30 Sep 2023
Keywords:disclosing ancient history, hybrid entity matching, text enrichment, link retrieval platform, digital humanities
Disciplines:Data mining, Ancient history