Low-Resource Techniques for Analysing the Rhetorical Structure of Swedish Historical Petitions

Ellinor Lindqvist, Eva Pettersson, Joakim Nivre


Abstract
Natural language processing techniques can be valuable for improving and facilitating historical research. This is also true for the analysis of petitions, a source which has been relatively little used in historical research. However, limited data resources pose challenges for mainstream natural language processing approaches based on machine learning. In this paper, we explore methods for automatically segmenting petitions according to their rhetorical structure. We find that the use of rules, word embeddings, and especially keywords can give promising results for this task.
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2023.resourceful-1.16
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Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Resources and Representations for Under-Resourced Languages and Domains (RESOURCEFUL-2023)
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May
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2023
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Tórshavn, the Faroe Islands
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Nikolai Ilinykh, Felix Morger, Dana Dannélls, Simon Dobnik, Beáta Megyesi, Joakim Nivre
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132–139
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Ellinor Lindqvist, Eva Pettersson, and Joakim Nivre. 2023. Low-Resource Techniques for Analysing the Rhetorical Structure of Swedish Historical Petitions. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Resources and Representations for Under-Resourced Languages and Domains (RESOURCEFUL-2023), pages 132–139, Tórshavn, the Faroe Islands. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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