Extracting Relations from Ecclesiastical Cultural Heritage Texts

Giulia Cruciani


Abstract
Motivated by the increasing volume of data and the necessity of getting valuable insights, this research describes the process of extracting entities and relations from Italian texts in the context of ecclesiastical cultural heritage data. Named Entity Recognition (NER) and Relation Extraction (RE) are paramount tasks in Natural Language Processing. This paper presents a traditional methodology based on a two-step procedure: firstly, a custom model for Named Entity Recognition extracts entities from data, and then, a multi-input neural network model is trained to perform Relation Classification as a multi-label classification problem. Data are provided by IDS&Unitelm (technological partner of the IT Services and National Office for Ecclesiastical Cultural Heritage and Religious Buildings of CEI, the Italian Episcopal Conference) and concerns biographical texts of 9,982 entities of type person, which can be accessed by the online portal BeWeb. This approach aims to enhance the organization and accessibility of ecclesiastical cultural heritage data, offering deeper insights into historical biographical records.
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2024.nlp4dh-1.5
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Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities
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November
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2024
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Miami, USA
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Mika Hämäläinen, Emily Öhman, So Miyagawa, Khalid Alnajjar, Yuri Bizzoni
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NLP4DH
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Giulia Cruciani. 2024. Extracting Relations from Ecclesiastical Cultural Heritage Texts. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities, pages 41–50, Miami, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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