Text2Story 2023

Ignatius Ezeani has presented our first project paper titled “Extracting Imprecise Geographical and Temporal References from Journey Narratives” at the Text2Story 2023 workshop in Dublin, Ireland. Text2Story 2023 is the Sixth International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts held in conjunction with the 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval. The demo paper illustrates how we are extending current geographical text analysis techniques and applying them to analyses of two large corpora: one a corpus of travel writing about the English Lake District, predominantly written in the 18th and 19th centuries; the other, a corpus of Holocaust survivor testimonies. Our prototype NLP pipeline was demonstrated at the workshop and is available open source as a series of Python Notebooks on our project’s GitHub repository.