Bibliographic reference analysis in archival data using supervised machine learning and grammatical features / by James Patrick Philips.

Author/creator Philips, James Patrick author.
Other author Tabrizi, M. H. N., degree supervisor.
Other author East Carolina University. Department of Computer Science.
Format Theses and dissertations
Publication[Greenville, N.C.] : [East Carolina University], 2021.
Description1 online resource (78 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
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Summary Bibliographic references are integral to scholarly discourse in humanities disciplines. While prior work has focused on reference extraction and parsing, little research has investigated the classification of footnotes containing bibliographic citations and author commentary using supervised machine learning methodologies. For this thesis, we contextualize bibliographic reference analysis within the broader domain of archival document processing through an original literature survey of current techniques, tools, and trends in the field of historical document processing. Next, we review related work on bibliographic citation identification and reference parsing. Finally, using a historiographic dataset drawn from the JSTOR humanities archive, we train and compare the performance of a suite of single and hybrid machine learning classifiers on a novel, previously unexplored bibliographic reference classification task. Moreover, as a part of this analysis, we compare the performance of traditional features and novel, grammatical features drawn from natural language processing. Our work demonstrates the superiority of hybrid models for classification of scholarly footnotes containing historiographic bibliographic references, the transferability of features from reference extraction to this research problem, and the viability of training machine learning models for this task utilizing novel, grammatical features.
General notePresented to the faculty of the Department of Computer Science
General noteAdvisor: Nasseh Tabrizi
General noteTitle from PDF t.p. (viewed November 29, 2022).
Dissertation noteM.S. East Carolina University 2021
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web.
Genre/formAcademic theses.
Genre/formAcademic theses.
Genre/formThèses et écrits académiques.

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