Publication Details

Testing of Various Approaches for Semiautomatic Parish Records Word Standardization

HŘÍBEK David, ROZMAN Jaroslav and ZBOŘIL František. Testing of Various Approaches for Semiautomatic Parish Records Word Standardization. In: JIST: Joint International Semantic Technology Conference. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 1157. Hangzhou: Springer International Publishing, 2019, pp. 21-33. ISBN 978-981-1534-11-9. ISSN 1865-0929.

Czech title

Testování různých přístupů pro poloautomatickou standardizaci slov v matričních záznamech

Type

conference paper

Language

english

Authors

Hříbek David, Ing. (FIT BUT)
Rozman Jaroslav, Ing., Ph.D. (DITS FIT BUT)
Zbořil František, doc. Ing., Ph.D. (DITS FIT BUT)

Keywords

Words clustering, Parish records, Levenshtein distance,
Soundex, Double Metaphone

Abstract

This paper deals with the clustering of words from parish records. Clustering is essential for downstream standardization. In the past, mostly in the 17th and beginning of 18th century, the names did not have a standard form, thus for further work, it is essential to create clusters of words that have the same meaning. Besides names, the parish records are in the various languages - Czech, German, Latin, so if we want to have relations between people, occupations, or causes of death in one language, we need to standardize it.
The first step of standardization is pre-processing, then we compare words, and the last step is classification into clusters. The most crucial step here is a comparison of words. We have tested various approaches like Levenshtein distance and its modifications, Q-grams, Jaro-Winkler, and phonetic codings like Soundex and Double-Metaphone. All those methods have been with types of words that can appear in parish records first and last names, occupation, village, and relationship between people. From these tests, we have chosen the most suitable ways for the clustering of different types of words.

Published

2019

Pages

21-33

Journal

Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 1157, no. 1157, ISSN 1865-0929

Proceedings

JIST: Joint International Semantic Technology Conference

Series

Communications in Computer and Information Science

Conference

JIST2019: The 9th Joint International Semantic Technology Conference, Hangzhou, China, CN

ISBN

978-981-1534-11-9

Publisher

Springer International Publishing

Place

Hangzhou, CN

DOI

10.1007/978-981-15-3412-6_3

UT WoS

000679332100003

EID Scopus

2-s2.0-85081172124

BibTeX

@INPROCEEDINGS{FITPUB12047,
   author = "David H\v{r}\'{i}bek and Jaroslav Rozman and Franti\v{s}ek Zbo\v{r}il",
   title = "Testing of Various Approaches for Semiautomatic Parish Records Word Standardization",
   pages = "21--33",
   booktitle = "JIST: Joint International Semantic Technology Conference",
   series = "Communications in Computer and Information Science",
   journal = "Communications in Computer and Information Science",
   volume = 1157,
   number = 1157,
   year = 2019,
   location = "Hangzhou, CN",
   publisher = "Springer International Publishing",
   ISBN = "978-981-1534-11-9",
   ISSN = "1865-0929",
   doi = "10.1007/978-981-15-3412-6\_3",
   language = "english",
   url = "https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/12047"
}