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What is Name Disambiguation

Chapter 11
Digital Humanities and Scholarly Research Trends in the Asia-Pacific
Chinese historical figures often share names that make it difficult to distinguish them from each other. To integrate the extracted data into the existing CBDB system, we need to identify and link records of the same person, a process usually referred to as disambiguation. For CBDB’s biographical data disambiguation is done with the aid of digital tools.
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Semi-Automating the Transformation of Chinese Historical Records Into Structured Biographical Data
Lik Hang Tsui (Harvard University, USA) and Hongsu Wang (Harvard University, USA)
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 19
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7195-7.ch011
Abstract
This chapter explores and analyzes the new methods that the China Biographical Database (CBDB) project team has developed and adopted to digitize reference works about Chinese history, which is part of the important process of turning them into structured biographical data. This workflow focuses on the Tang Dynasty (618-907) and has implications for the continued improvement in the technologies for digitization and research into historical biographies in the Chinese language. These explorations and outcomes also demonstrate attempts in the Chinese studies field to transform large amounts of texts in non-Latin script into structured biographical data in a semi-automated fashion, and are expected to benefit digital humanities research, especially initiatives focusing on the Asia-Pacific region.
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