Publication detail

Testing of Various Approaches for Semiautomatic Parish Records Word Standardization

ROZMAN, J. HŘÍBEK, D. ZBOŘIL, F.

Original Title

Testing of Various Approaches for Semiautomatic Parish Records Word Standardization

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

This paper deals with the clustering of words from parish records. Clustering is essential for downstream standardization. In the past, mostly in the 17th and beginning of 18th century, the names did not have a standard form, thus for further work, it is essential to create clusters of words that have the same meaning. Besides names, the parish records are in the various languages - Czech, German, Latin, so if we want to have relations between people, occupations, or causes of death in one language, we need to standardize it. The first step of standardization is pre-processing, then we compare words, and the last step is classification into clusters. The most crucial step here is a comparison of words. We have tested various approaches like Levenshtein distance and its modifications, Q-grams, Jaro-Winkler, and phonetic codings like Soundex and Double-Metaphone. All those methods have been with types of words that can appear in parish records first and last names, occupation, village, and relationship between people. From these tests, we have chosen the most suitable ways for the clustering of different types of words.

Keywords

Words clustering, Parish records, Levenshtein distance, Soundex, Double Metaphone

Authors

ROZMAN, J.; HŘÍBEK, D.; ZBOŘIL, F.

Released

9. 8. 2019

Publisher

Springer International Publishing

Location

Hangzhou

ISBN

978-981-1534-11-9

Book

JIST: Joint International Semantic Technology Conference

Edition

Communications in Computer and Information Science

ISBN

1865-0929

Periodical

Communications in Computer and Information Science

Year of study

1157

Number

1157

State

Federal Republic of Germany

Pages from

21

Pages to

33

Pages count

13

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT162369,
  author="Jaroslav {Rozman} and David {Hříbek} and František {Zbořil}",
  title="Testing of Various Approaches for Semiautomatic Parish Records Word Standardization",
  booktitle="JIST: Joint International Semantic Technology Conference",
  year="2019",
  series="Communications in Computer and Information Science",
  journal="Communications in Computer and Information Science",
  volume="1157",
  number="1157",
  pages="21--33",
  publisher="Springer International Publishing",
  address="Hangzhou",
  doi="10.1007/978-981-15-3412-6\{_}3",
  isbn="978-981-1534-11-9",
  issn="1865-0929"
}