Big Ideas Series: Entity disambiguation in digital cultural heritage

To enable people to explore a digital collection, the platform
that hosts that collection needs to have a comprehensive
understanding of the information it is presenting. However, the
level and quality of assistance that can be provided to a user
by a computer is largely dependent on the amount of information
that the system has about the collection. While such
information can be provided by a process of manually tagging
and annotating archive contents, this can be expensive,
time-consuming or even infeasible if the collection is too
large.


This talk will explore the challenges involved in the automatic
identification and disambiguation of entities within digital
cultural heritage collections.


Seamus Lawless is Assistant Professor at Trinity
College Dublin.


Our Big Ideas seminar series is funded by the Friends of The
National Archives.