Harvesting indices to grow a controlled vocabulary: towards improved access to historical legal texts

Authors:
Michael Piotrowski;Cathrin Senn
Affiliations:
Law Sources Foundation of the Swiss Lawyers Society, Zurich, Switzerland;sennmantics GmbH, Thalwil, Switzerland
Venue:
LaTeCH '12 Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities
Year:
2012

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Abstract

We describe ongoing work aiming at deriving a multilingual controlled vocabulary (German, French, Italian) from the combined subject indices from 22 volumes of a large-scale critical edition of historical documents. The controlled vocabulary is intended to support editors in assigning descriptors to new documents and to support users in retrieving documents of interest regardless of the spelling or language variety used in the documents.