A Machine Learning Approach to Quantitative Prosopography
Prosopography is an investigation of the common characteristics of a group of people in history, by a collective study of their lives. It involves a study of biographies to solve historical problems. If such biographies are unavailable, surviving documents and secondary biographical data are used. Quantitative prosopography involves analysis of information from a wide variety of sources about "ordinary people". In this paper, we present a machine learning framework for automatically designing a people gazetteer which forms the basis of quantitative prosopographical research. The gazetteer is learnt from the noisy text of newspapers using a Named Entity Recognizer (NER). It is capable of identifying influential people from it by making use of a custom designed Influential Person Index (IPI). Our corpus comprises of 14020 articles from a local newspaper, "The Sun", published from New York in 1896. Some influential people identified by our algorithm include Captain Donald Hankey (an English soldier), Dame Nellie Melba (an Australian operatic soprano), Hugh Allan (a Canadian shipping magnate) and Sir Hugh John McDonald (the first Prime Minister of Canada).
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