1 code implementation • 30 Nov 2021 • Kasra Hosseini, Daniel C. S. Wilson, Kaspar Beelen, Katherine McDonough
We present MapReader, a free, open-source software library written in Python for analyzing large map collections (scanned or born-digital).
2 code implementations • 17 Sep 2020 • Mariona Coll Ardanuy, Kasra Hosseini, Katherine McDonough, Amrey Krause, Daniel van Strien, Federico Nanni
We report its performance on candidate selection in the context of the downstream task of toponym resolution, both on existing datasets and on a new manually-annotated resource of nineteenth-century English OCR'd text.
1 code implementation • COLING 2020 • Mariona Coll Ardanuy, Federico Nanni, Kaspar Beelen, Kasra Hosseini, Ruth Ahnert, Jon Lawrence, Katherine McDonough, Giorgia Tolfo, Daniel CS Wilson, Barbara McGillivray
This paper proposes a new approach to animacy detection, the task of determining whether an entity is represented as animate in a text.