Geoparsing biodiversity heritage library collections: A preliminary exploration

Stahlman, Gretchen Renee; Sheffield, Carolyn

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Title

Geoparsing biodiversity heritage library collections: A preliminary exploration

Author(s)

• Stahlman, Gretchen Renee
• Sheffield, Carolyn

Issue Date

2019-03-15

Keyword(s)

• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• Geoparsing
• Biodiversity
• Text mining
• Data

Date of Ingest

2019-03-22T21:34:48Z

Abstract

A short pilot study was conducted to provide recommendations on methods and workflows for extracting geographic references from the text of Biodiversity Heritage Library collections and disambiguating these references. An initial survey of the literature was conducted, and a variety of possible techniques and software were subsequently explored for natural language processing, machine learning, document annotation, and map visualization. A test corpus was evaluated, and preliminary findings identify challenges for a full-scale effort towards automated geoparsing, including: varying OCR quality, diversity of the corpus, historical context, and ambiguity of geographic references. The project background, approaches, and preliminary assessment are described here.

Publisher

iSchools

Series/Report Name or Number

iConference 2019 Proceedings

Type of Resource

text

Genre of Resource

Conference Poster

Language

eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/103357

DOI

https://doi.org/10.21900/iconf.2019.103357

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Copyright 2019 Gretchen Renee Stahlman and Carolyn Sheffield

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