Visualization of relationships among historical persons using locational information

Authors:
Takahiko Osaki;Sho Itsubo;Fuminori Kimura;Taro Tezuka;Akira Maeda
Affiliations:
Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University;Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University;College of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University;College of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University;College of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University
Venue:
W2GIS'11 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Web and wireless geographical information systems
Year:
2011

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Abstract

The use of text mining for obtaining new knowledge from historical documents has gained wide attention in humanities research. We propose a method of revealing and visualizing relationships between historical persons using locational information expressed in historical documents. For each person, a vector of co-occurring place names is constructed. We then clustered persons using this vector in the K-means algorithm. We conducted experiments using Hyohanki, a diary written by an aristocrat in the classical era. The result showed that the obtained clusters match well with historically meaningful groups, indicating the effectiveness of our proposed method.