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ABSTRACT
In this paper, we propose and discuss a methodology to map the spatial fingerprints of novels and authors based on all of the named urban roads (i.e., odonyms) extracted from novels. We present several ways to explore Parisian space and fictional landscapes by interactively and simultaneously browsing geographical space and literary text. Our project involves building a platform capable of retrieving, mapping and analyzing the occurrences of named urban roads in novels in which the action occurs wholly or partly in Paris. This platform will be used in several areas, such as cultural tourism, urban research, and literary analysis. The paper focuses on extracting named urban roads and mapping the results for a sample of 31 novels published between 1800 and 1914. Two approaches to the annotation of odonyms are compared. First, we describe a proof of concept using queries made via the TXM textual analysis platform. Then, we describe an automatic process using a natural language processing (NLP) method. Additionally, we mention how the geosemantic information annotated from the text (e.g., a structure combining verbs, spatial relations, named entities, adjectives and adverbs) can be used to automatically characterize the semantic content associated with named urban roads.
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Notes
6. In this experiment, we use Treetagger (Schmid Citation1994) for part-of-speech analysis.
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Ludovic Moncla
Ludovic Moncla is an Associate Professor in Computer Science at INSA Lyon (Department of Industrial Engineering) and LIRIS laboratory (UMR 5205 CNRS). His research interests are oriented towards pluridisciplinary aspects of Natural Language Processing (NLP), information retrieval, data mining, digital humanities and geographical information science (GIS).
Mauro Gaio
Mauro Gaio is Professor in Computer Science at University of Pau and the Adour region and is member of the Laboratory of Mathematics and its Applications of Pau (LMAP, UMR 5142 CNRS). His research is mainly in the transition from unstructured geodata to semantics, viewed from both theoretical and pragmatic perspective with the aim to develop methods and techniques to computationally extract the meaningful content of raw spatio-temporal information.
Thierry Joliveau
Thierry Joliveau is Professor of Geography and co-director of the Master of Digital Geography at the Jean Monnet University of Saint-Etienne (University of Lyon). He is a member of the "Ville Environnement Société" CNRS unit where he develops theoretical and applied research on the use of geographical information in the fields of environment, landscape and culture.
Yves-François Le Lay
Yves-François Le Lay is an Associate Professor in Geography at the Department of Social Sciences at the Ecole normale supérieure de Lyon. His research interests include social theory approaches to nature, with a particular focus on public perception of landscapes and the exploration of textual data.
Noémie Boeglin
Noémie Boeglin is an architect and PhD in History. She is an associated researcher in EVS-Isthme. Her research focuses on the representation of the modernity of Paris in the nineteenth century, especially through novels.
Pierre-Olivier Mazagol
Pierre-Olivier Mazagol, PhD in Geography, is a GIS engineer in EVS lab at Université de Saint-Étienne. His research interests include geomatics uses, especially spatial analysis and modelization, mainly for environment and ecology aims, but also for patrimatory or arts.