T-Res: A Toponym Resolution Pipeline for Digitised Historical Newspapers
T-Res is an end-to-end pipeline for toponym resolution for digitised historical newspapers. Given an input text, T-Res identifies the places that are mentioned in it, links them to their corresponding Wikidata IDs, and provides their geographic coordinates. T-Res has been designed to tackle common problems of working with digitised historical newspapers.
The pipeline has three main components:
The Recogniser performs named entity recognition.
The Ranker performs candidate selection and ranking.
The Linker performs entity linking and resolution.
The three components are used in combination in the Pipeline class.
We also provide the code to deploy T-Res as an API, and show how to use it. Each of these elements are described in this documentation.
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