AUTHOR=Bornet Cyril , Kaplan Frédéric 

TITLE=A Simple Set of Rules for Characters and Place Recognition in French Novels

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Digital Humanities

VOLUME=4

YEAR=2017

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/digital-humanities/articles/10.3389/fdigh.2017.00006

DOI=10.3389/fdigh.2017.00006

ISSN=2297-2668

ABSTRACT=<p>This article describes a simple unsupervised system for automatic extraction and classification of named entities in French novels. The solution presented combines a set of different standalone classifiers within a meta-recognition system. The system is tested on 35 classic French novels, representing 5 million words and 3,700 names of people and places. The results demonstrate that although none of the standalone methods clearly outperforms the others, their combined classification offers a robust solution in this context.</p>