@inproceedings{PaivaOliveiraHiguchiRademakerDeMelo2014,
  title = {Exploratory Information Extraction from a Historical Dictionary},
  author = {Paiva, Valeria de and Oliveira, D{\'{a}}rio and Higuchi, Suemi and Rademaker, Alexandre and {de Melo}, Gerard},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Workshop on Digital Humanities and e-Science at the 10th IEEE International Conference on e-Science},
  year = {2014},
  month = {Oct},
  abstract = {We describe a preliminary project of extracting information from an extant dictionary of historical biographies, the "Dicion\'{a}rio Hist\'{o}rico-Biogr\'{a}fico Brasileiro" (the Brazilian Historical and Biographical Dictionary, shortened as DHBB), a longstanding project at the 'Centro de Pesquisa e Documenta\c{c}\~{a}o de Hist\'{o}ria Contempor\^{a}nea do Brasil' (CPDOC) of the Funda\c{c}\~{a}o Getulio Vargas (FGV). For information extraction, we rely on Natural Language Processing tools such as FreeLing as well as our resources NomLex-PT, a lexicon of nominalizations, and OpenWN-PT, a Portuguese version of Princeton's WordNet database. While our project currently highlights the potential of information extraction in a fun exploratory manner, we also discuss the engaging of historians interested in the affordances of digital tools.}
}