Temporal Information Processing and a Chronological System for Chinese Historical Documents
Date Issued
2014
Date
2014
Author(s)
Su, Feng-Cheng
Abstract
Chronicle is one of the oldest forms of historical representation. It records events in chronological order and provides researchers a way to understand history. In China, this kind of historical representation can be dated back to
Pre-Qin Period (先秦時期). Spring and Autumn Annals (春秋), Zuo Zhuan (左傳), and Bamboo Annals (竹書紀年) are all written in chronological order. Duringl Song Dynasty (宋朝), Sima Guang (司馬光) wrote Zizhi Tongjian (資治通鑑), a masterpiece of Chinese chronicles, that set the standard for all later chronicles. Zizhi Tongjian covered Chinese history from 403 BC to 959 AD. Addition to historical records written as chronicles, the biological sketches of emperors documented in the Official Histories (Zhengshi, 本紀) are usually also written in the chronological style.
This research tries to create a chronicle covering the period of ancient Chinese history by combining chronologies such as Zizhi Tongjian with the chronological records in the Official Histories, and to create a method to process temporal information in Chinese historical documents. We first use regular expressions to automatically annotate temporal information from Chinese historical documents. We then build a chronological system to display the processed records. Through our system, we hope to provide users a way to read those historical documents in a more convenient way and be able to find inter-document relationships.
Subjects
編年體
時間資訊
時間資訊處理
正規表示式
數位人文
Type
thesis
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