10.23636/B1C4-PY78
Coll Ardanuy, Mariona
Mariona
Coll Ardanuy
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8455-7196
The Alan Turing Institute
Beavan, David
David
Beavan
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0347-6659
The Alan Turing Institute
Beelen, Kaspar
Kaspar
Beelen
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7331-1174
The Alan Turing Institute
Hosseini, Kasra
Kasra
Hosseini
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4396-6019
The Alan Turing Institute
Lawrence, Jon
Jon
Lawrence
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6561-6381
University of Exeter
McDonough, Katherine
Katherine
McDonough
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7506-1025
The Alan Turing Institute
Nanni, Federico
Federico
Nanni
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2484-4331
The Alan Turing Institute
van Strien, Daniel
Daniel
van Strien
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1684-6556
British Library
Wilson, Daniel
Daniel
Wilson
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6886-775X
The Alan Turing Institute
Dataset for Toponym Resolution in Nineteenth-Century English Newspapers
British Library
2021
Dataset
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Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International
We present a new dataset for the task of toponym resolution in digitised historical newspapers in English. It consists of 343 annotated articles from newspapers based in four different locations in England (Manchester, Ashton-under-Lyne, Poole and Dorchester), published between 1780 and 1870. The articles have been manually annotated with mentions of places, which are linked---whenever possible---to their corresponding entry on Wikipedia. The dataset is published on the British Library shared research repository, and is especially of interest to researchers working on improving semantic access to historical newspaper content. We share the 343 annotated files (one file per article) in the WebAnno TSV file format version 3.2, a CoNLL-based file format. We additionally provide a TSV file with metadata at the article level, and the annotation guidelines.
Arts and Humanities Research Council
https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000267
AH/S01179X/1
Living with Machines
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000266
EP/N510129/1
The Alan Turing Institute