Leveraging back-of-the-book indices to enable spatial browsing of a historical document collection

Authors:
Michael Piotrowski
Affiliations:
Law Sources Foundation of the Swiss Lawyers Society, Zurich, Switzerland
Venue:
Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval
Year:
2010

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Abstract

We describe ongoing work on detecting toponyms in back-of-the-book indices to geocode historical documents not available in full text; the goal is specifically to provide spatial browsing for the Collection of Swiss Law Sources. We discuss some of the peculiarities of handcrafted indices and approaches for coping with them.