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title = "Mapping the Historical Ecology of the Cyclades: A Diachronic Natural Language Processing Analysis of Travel Narratives (1700{--}1920)",
author = "Christopoulou, Aikaterini and
Detsis, Vassilis and
Gatos, Basilis",
editor = "Grasso, Francesca and
Basile, Valerio and
Bosco, Cristina and
Ibrohim, Muhammad Okky and
Skeppstedt, Maria and
Stede, Manfred",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Ecology, Environment, and Natural Language Processing",
month = may,
year = "2026",
address = "Palma de Mallorca, Spain",
publisher = "European Language Resources Association",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.nlp4ecology-1.10/",
doi = "10.63317/3m3ctq8ek3u8",
pages = "105--114",
abstract = "Historical texts can be valuable for the study of a place{'}s ecological history but reading and extracting information from them can be a tedious and time-consuming task. Natural Language Processing can help in order to extract the most important information of the text in a quick, effective and reproducible way. In this study, travel narratives for the Cyclades Islands from 4 different time periods (1700-1920) have been chosen for analysis. The first step, the quantitative part, includes the semi-automatic detection of geographical entities in the texts and their connection to predefined keywords in order to enable temporal and spatial statistical analysis. The output of this procedure is then inserted in a Retrieval-Augmented Generative Synthesis pipeline in which the text segments with the connected place and keyword are processed by a locally orchestrated Large Language Model. The final output is used for the understanding and interpretation of the original text. Even though the study focuses mainly on the coherence and repeatability of the workflow, an effort is made to interpret and connect the results to the past ecological profile of these islands. The dataset/supplementary material is provided via an open access repository."
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%A Christopoulou, Aikaterini
%A Detsis, Vassilis
%A Gatos, Basilis
%Y Grasso, Francesca
%Y Basile, Valerio
%Y Bosco, Cristina
%Y Ibrohim, Muhammad Okky
%Y Skeppstedt, Maria
%Y Stede, Manfred
%S Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Ecology, Environment, and Natural Language Processing
%D 2026
%8 May
%I European Language Resources Association
%C Palma de Mallorca, Spain
%F christopoulou-etal-2026-mapping
%X Historical texts can be valuable for the study of a place’s ecological history but reading and extracting information from them can be a tedious and time-consuming task. Natural Language Processing can help in order to extract the most important information of the text in a quick, effective and reproducible way. In this study, travel narratives for the Cyclades Islands from 4 different time periods (1700-1920) have been chosen for analysis. The first step, the quantitative part, includes the semi-automatic detection of geographical entities in the texts and their connection to predefined keywords in order to enable temporal and spatial statistical analysis. The output of this procedure is then inserted in a Retrieval-Augmented Generative Synthesis pipeline in which the text segments with the connected place and keyword are processed by a locally orchestrated Large Language Model. The final output is used for the understanding and interpretation of the original text. Even though the study focuses mainly on the coherence and repeatability of the workflow, an effort is made to interpret and connect the results to the past ecological profile of these islands. The dataset/supplementary material is provided via an open access repository.
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%P 105-114
Markdown (Informal)
[Mapping the Historical Ecology of the Cyclades: A Diachronic Natural Language Processing Analysis of Travel Narratives (1700–1920)](https://aclanthology.org/2026.nlp4ecology-1.10/) (Christopoulou et al., NLP4Ecology 2026)
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