A hybrid approach to co-reference identification within museum collections

David Croft; Simon Coupland; Stephen Brown

doi:10.1109/CIES.2013.6611737

A hybrid approach to co-reference identification within museum collections

David Croft, Simon Coupland, Stephen Brown

School of Computing, Electronics and Maths

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Abstract

Locating specific resources within museum collections represents a major challenge for users. Even when catalogues exist in a searchable digital format (which is not certain), formatting differences and the nature of the information to be encoded mean that there is a very large degree of variation in records not just from different catalogues but within individual catalogues. The nature of the data being searched means that traditional search techniques are badly suited to the challenges of identifying similar records in collections. In this paper we discuss a fuzzy rule based approach for identifying similarities between records and to identify co-referent records across multiple heritage collections. We also describe the application of this approach to real world collections and records which demonstrates some promising early results.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Engineering Solutions (CIES)
Pages	110-117
Number of pages	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/CIES.2013.6611737
Publication status	Published - 2013
Event	2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Engineering Solutions (CIES) - Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel, Singapore, Singapore Duration: 16 Apr 2013 → 19 Apr 2013 http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/epnsugan/index_files/SSCI2013/CIES2013.htm

Conference

Conference	2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Engineering Solutions (CIES)
Abbreviated title	CIES 2013
Country	Singapore
City	Singapore
Period	16/04/13 → 19/04/13
Internet address	http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/epnsugan/index_files/SSCI2013/CIES2013.htm

Keywords

Vectors
Measurement
Databases
Keyword search
Educational institutions
Computational intelligence
Electronic mail

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Croft, D, Coupland, S & Brown, S 2013, A hybrid approach to co-reference identification within museum collections. in Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Engineering Solutions (CIES) . pp. 110-117, 2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Engineering Solutions (CIES), Singapore, Singapore, 16/04/13. https://doi.org/10.1109/CIES.2013.6611737

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