NameScape

NameScape: Mapping the Landscape of Names in Modern Dutch Literature

Summary

Searching and visualizing Named Entities in modern Dutch novels.

Background

The named entity (NE) tagging and resolution in NameScape enables quantitative and repeatable research where previously only guesswork and anecdotal evidence was feasible. The visualisation module enables researchers with a less technical background to draw conclusions about functions of names in literary work and help them to explore the material in search of more interesting questions (and answers). Users from other communities (sociolinguistics, sentiment analysis, …) also benefit from the NE tagged data, especially since the NE recognizer is available as a web service, enabling researchers to annotate their own research data. Datasets in NameScape (total of 1.129 books):

  • Corpus Sanders: A corpus of 582 Dutch novels written and published between 1970 and 2009 will.
  • Corpus Huygens: Consists of 22 novels manually tagged with detailed named entity information. IPR for this corpus do not allow distribution.
  • Corpus eBooks: Consists of 7000+ Dutch eBooks tagged automatically with basic NER features and person name Part information. IPR for this corpus do not allow distribution.
  • Corpus SoNaR Books: 105 Dutch books; NE tagged.
  • Corpus Gutenberg Dutch: Consists of 530 NE tagged TEI files converted from the Epub versions of the corresponding Gutenberg documents.
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Research domain

Computational Linguistics
Literary Studies

Language

Dutch

Resource tags

corpus
text corpus
service
text processing
web-application
web-service
mono-lingual

Tool task

search
text processing
NE recognition

CLARIN centre

Huygens ING

Country

Netherlands