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2022

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A Dataset for Toponym Resolution in Nineteenth-Century English Newspapers

We present a new dataset for the task of toponym resolution in digitized 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...

Coll Ardanuy, Mariona ; Beavan, David ; Beelen, Kaspar ; Hosseini, Kasra ; Lawrence, Jon …
nineteenth-century English, geographic information retrieval, benchmark, newspapers, toponym resolution, and dataset