Citation segmentation from sparse & noisy data: A joint inference approach with Markov logic networks.

This article presents an approach to citation segmentation that addresses special challenges as typically found in Digital Humanities applications. We perform citation segmentation from Optical Character Recognition (OCR) input obtained from volumes of a printed bibliography, the Turkology Annual. T...

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Publicado en:Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 31; no. 2; pp. 333 - 357
Autores principales: Heckmann, Dustin, Frank, Anette, Arnold, Matthias, Gietz, Peter, Roth, Christian
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Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA 6/1/2016
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          Department of Computational Linguistics, Heidelberg University, Germany
          Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe", Heidelberg University, Germany
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        Citation analysis
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