Named-Entity Dataset for Medieval Latin, Middle High German and Old Norse

We present a dataset of named entities in three languages: Medieval Latin, Middle High German and Old Norse. The dataset, containing proper nouns of persons and places, was originally created to extract characters from three related medieval texts. Since the annotation is on low-resource pre-modern...

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Published inJournal of open humanities data Vol. 7
Main Authors Besnier, Clément, Mattingly, William
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Ubiquity Press 06.10.2021
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latin
medieval latin
middle high german
named-entity recognition
natural language processing
old norse
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Summary:We present a dataset of named entities in three languages: Medieval Latin, Middle High German and Old Norse. The dataset, containing proper nouns of persons and places, was originally created to extract characters from three related medieval texts. Since the annotation is on low-resource pre-modern languages, they may be important to build named-entity recognition tools for languages with little data and high linguistic variation.
ISSN:2059-481X
2059-481X
DOI:10.5334/johd.36