Interactive Ambiguity Resolution of Named Entities in Fictional Literature

• Published in: Computer graphics forum Vol. 36; no. 3; pp. 189 - 200
• Main Authors: Stoffel, Florian, Jentner, Wolfgang, Behrisch, Michael, Fuchs, Johannes, Keim, Daniel
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.06.2017
• Subjects: Ambiguity; Categories and Subject Descriptors (according to ACM CCS); Fiction; H.5.2 [Computer Graphics]: Information Interfaces and Presentation—Graphical user interfaces; I.7.m [Document and Text Processing]: Miscellaneous; Iterative methods; J.5 [Computer Applications]: Arts and Humanities—Literature; Post-production processing; Recognition; Software; State of the art; Unstructured data

Named entity recognition (NER) denotes the task to detect entities and their corresponding classes, such as person or location, in unstructured text data. For most applications, state of the art NER software is producing reasonable results. However, as a consequence of the methodological limitations...