Slides for the Linking Syriac Geographic Data Research Group at Linked Pasts IV in Mainz, Germany, as presented December 11th, 2018.

1. Linking Syriac Geographic Data
Wido Van Peursen & Mathias Coeckelbergs

2. LinkSyr Project
https://github.com/ETCBC/linksyr

3. OCR

4. Multiple Text Formats

5. Lemmatizer

6. Morphological Parser

7. Syriaca data
• TEI RDF/XML data

8. Peshitta in Text-Fabric

9. Reconciliation Results
• Syriaca place names in text-fabric

10. Matching in Recogito

11. Matching in Recogito

12. Fuzzy Matching
• OCR

13. Fuzzy Matching
• Gentilics

14. Fuzzy Matching
• Allow false positives
-> manual control and database expansion
-> threshold of 0.8 models matters lectionis
-> threshold of 0.55 models close relatives
-> Example: !"#$‫ܐ‬ / ‫ܐ$)('ܣ‬ (’gbty /’gptws)

15. Fuzzy Matching
• BLC test case
-> threshold of 0.8: 84,8% tp and 15,2% fp
-> threshold of 0.55 64% tp and 36% fp
-> Example: !"#$‫ܐ‬ / ‫ܐ$)('ܣ‬ (’gbty /’gptws)

16. Fuzzy Matching

17. Event Matching

18. Future Work
• Towards data-driven
classification of URIs
• Topic Modelling