Citation
Guerrero Nieto, Marta and García Rodríguez, María José and Urrutia Zambrana, Adolfo and Siabato Vaca, Willington Libardo and Bernabe Poveda, Miguel Angel
(2010).
Incorporating TimeML into a GIS.
"International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Applications", v. 1
(n. 1-2);
pp. 269-283.
ISSN 2180-1266.
Abstract
This study approaches a methodology for the integration of temporal information belonging to a historical corpus in a Geographic Information System (GIS), with the purpose of analyzing and visualizing the textual information. The selected corpus is composed of business letters of the Castilian merchant Simón Ruiz (1553-1597), in the context of the DynCoopNet Project (Dynamic Complexity of Cooperation-Based Self-Organizing Commercial Networks in the First Global Age), that aims to analyze the dynamic cooperation procedures of social networks. The integration of historical corpus into a GIS has involved the following phases: (1) recognition and normalization of temporal expressions and events in 16th century Castilian following the TimeML annotation guidelines and (2) storage of tagged expressions into a Geodatabase. The implementation of this process in a GIS would allow to later carrying out temporal queries, dynamic visualization of historical events and thus, it addresses the recognition of human activity patterns and behaviours over time
