Digging for Names in the Mountains: Combined Person Name Recognition and Reference Resolution for German Alpine Texts

In this paper we introduce a module that combines person name recognition and reference resolution for German. Our data consisted of a corpus of Alpine texts. This text type poses special challenges because of a multitude of toponyms, some of which interfere with person names. Our reference resolution algorithm outputs person entities based on their last names and first names along with their associated features (jobs, addresses, academic titles). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08958-4_16 Posted at the Zurich Open Repository and Archive, University of Zurich ZORA URL: https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-50451 Accepted Version Originally published at: Ebling, S; Sennrich, R; Klaper, D; Volk, Martin (2011). Digging for names in the mountains: Combined person name recognition and reference resolution for German alpine texts. In: 5th Language Technology Conference, Poznan, Poland, 25 November 2011 27 November 2011. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08958-4_16 Digging for Names in the Mountains: Combined Person Name Recognition and Reference Resolution for German Alpine Texts Sarah Ebling, Rico Sennrich, David Klaper, Martin Volk Institute of Computational Linguistics, University of Zurich Binzmühlestrasse 14, 8050 Zurich, Switzerland {ebling,sennrich,volk}@ifi.uzh.ch, [email protected]