metadata

license: cc-by-nc-sa-4.0
language:
  - fr
size_categories:
  - 10K<n<100K
task_categories:
  - text-classification
task_ids:
  - entity-linking-classification
paperswithcode_id: larousse-1905-wd
tags:
  - named-entity-linking

Dataset Card for "larousse_1905_wd"

The Petit Larousse illustré is a French dictionary first published in 1905. Its division in two main parts on language and on history and geography corresponds to a major milestone in French lexicography as well as a repository of general knowledge from this period. This dataset connects all the entries of the history and geography part (named entities) to wikidata items.

See the paper, Connecting a French Dictionary from the Beginning of the 20th Century to Wikidata for a full description.

Dataset Description

Repository: https://github.com/pnugues/petit_larousse_1905
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.11022

Data Instances

Each sample is a JSON dictionnary with the text of the entry and a list of wikidata identifiers, as for example:

{
  "texte": "AALI-PACHA, homme d'Etat turc, né à Constantinople. Il a attaché son nom à la politique de réformes du Tanzimat (1815-1871).", 
  "qid": ["Q439237"]
}

A few entries contain subentries, for instance dynasties, as for example:

{
  "texte": "ABAD Ier [bad'], premier roi maure de Séville, et chef de la dynastie des Abadites ;
            il régna de 1023 à 1042. — Son fils Abad II régna de 1042 à 1069,
            et son petit-fils, Abad III, de 1069 à 1095.""
  "qid": ["Q305795", "Q30556", "Q299578"]
}

The order of Wikidata identifiers in the qid list of follows the entity sequence in the text.

Data Fields

texte: A string containing the text of the entry with possible subentries
qid: a list of Wikidata identifiers represented as strings.

Citation Information

@InProceedings{nugues:2022:LREC,
  author    = {Nugues, Pierre},
  title     = {Connecting a French Dictionary from the Beginning of the 20th Century to Wikidata},
  booktitle      = {Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference},
  month          = {June},
  year           = {2022},
  address        = {Marseille, France},
  publisher      = {European Language Resources Association},
  pages     = {2548--2555},
  url       = {https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.272}
}