Visualization of relationships among historical persons from Japanese historical documents.
Digitization of Japanese historical documents has gained much attraction in the field of humanities in Japan recently, and numbers of documents are already available in digitized text format. However, text analysis of these documents has rarely been done mainly due to the lack of natural language pr...
| Published in: | Literary & Linguistic Computing Vol. 28; no. 2; pp. 271 - 279 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jun2013
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