对比瑞典百科两版地理条目,发现二战前重心转向北美非洲
Matching and Linking Entries in Historical Swedish Encyclopedias
- 用语义嵌入匹配新版与旧版百科条目,提取地理类条目
- 发现地理关注点从欧洲转向北美洲、非洲、亚洲等地区
- 适合历史学、数字人文研究者了解知识演化趋势
《Nordisk familjebok》是19至20世纪的瑞典百科全书,共四版,每版20至38卷,由专家撰写,强调精确性,对教育、媒体和社会影响深远。本文基于Project Runeberg的数字化文本,将原始文本重切分为条目,利用语义句子嵌入匹配第一版(1876–1899)与第二版(1904–1926)中的条目对,并通过基于Transformer的分类器提取地理条目,链接至Wikidata。分析显示,从第一版到第二版,地理关注点出现小但显著的转移:欧洲比重下降,北美、非洲、亚洲、澳大利亚及北斯堪的纳维亚地区关注度上升,反映出第一次世界大战后全球权力格局变化的影响。代码与数据已公开于GitHub。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
The \textit{Nordisk familjebok} is a Swedish encyclopedia from the 19th and 20th centuries. It was written by a team of experts and aimed to be an intellectual reference, stressing precision and accuracy. This encyclopedia had four main editions remarkable by their size, ranging from 20 to 38 volumes. As a consequence, the \textit{Nordisk familjebok} had a considerable influence in universities, schools, the media, and society overall. As new editions were released, the selection of entries and their content evolved, reflecting intellectual changes in Sweden. In this paper, we used digitized versions from \textit{Project Runeberg}. We first resegmented the raw text into entries and matched pairs of entries between the first and second editions using semantic sentence embeddings. We then extracted the geographical entries from both editions using a transformer-based classifier and linked them to Wikidata. This enabled us to identify geographic trends and possible shifts between the first and second editions, written between 1876-1899 and 1904-1926, respectively. Interpreting the results, we observe a small but significant shift in geographic focus away from Europe and towards North America, Africa, Asia, Australia, and northern Scandinavia from the first to the second edition, confirming the influence of the First World War and the rise of new powers. The code and data are available on GitHub at https://github.com/sibbo/nordisk-familjebok.
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