ChartEx: Tools for the Analysis of Medieval

Charters

www.chartex.org

Adam Kosto Columbia University

Universität Zürich 10 November 2016

Project Members / Institutions Sarah Rees Jones, Helen Petrie, Chris Power,

Stefania Perring (University of York) Roger Evans, Lynne Cahill (University of Brighton) Adam Kosto, Bob Scott (Columbia University) Bob Stacey, Jon Crump (University of

Washington) Arno Knobbe, Marvin Meeng (Leiden

University) Michael Gervers, Robin Sutherland-Harris

(University of Toronto)

Sale of Property D, bounded by A, B, and C

to South

Sale of Property B, bounded by Property C

to East

Sale of Property A, bounded by Property B

to East

Document 1 Document 2 Document 3

A      B   C  

D  

N  

ChartEx Architecture

charters  

analysed  individual  charters  

NLP   Data  mining  

analysed  integrated  charters  

Workbench  

ChartEx Developmental Data Charters of the Vicars Choral of York Minster

Latin charters and English abstracts.

The National Archives (UK) Ward 2

English abstracts

The Borthwick Institute, Yarburgh Muniments

English abstracts

DEEDS (University of Toronto)

Latin charters of English provenance

Cluny (CBMA)

Latin charters of French provenance

BRAT Rapid Annotation Tool

Pontus  Stenetorp,  Sampo  Pyysalo,  Goran  Topić,  Tomoko  Ohta,  Sophia  Ananiadou  and  Jun'ichi  Tsujii  (2012).  brat:  a  Web-­‐based  Tool  for  NLP-­‐Assisted  Text  AnnotaPon.  In  Proceedings  of  the  Demonstra6ons  Session  at  EACL  2012.    (hRp://brat.nlplab.org/)  

Ronald    Denaux  ,  Catherine    Dolbear  ,  Glen    Hart  ,  Vania    Dimitrova  ,  Anthony  G.    Cohn,  “SupporPng  domain  experts  to  construct  conceptual  ontologies:  A  holisPc  approach,”  Web  Seman6cs:  Science,  Services  and  Agents  on  the  World  Wide  Web  Volume  9.2  (2011):  113  -­‐  127      

Kanga Ontology Development

Simplified ChartEx Markup Schema ENTITIES

Actors (e.g., John, Thomas)

Locations (e.g., Blackacre, London) Events (e.g., sale, grant) Occupation (e.g., Smith) Date (e.g., 1 May 1200)

       

Simplified ChartEx Markup Schema ENTITIES

Actors (e.g., John, Thomas)

Locations (e.g., Blackacre, London) Events (e.g., sale, grant) Occupation (e.g., Smith) Date (e.g., 1 May 1200)

ROLES

is grantor of is father or

is located W of occurs on

is the same as        

Simplified ChartEx Markup Schema ENTITIES

Actors (e.g., John, Thomas)

Locations (e.g., Blackacre, London) Events (e.g., sale, grant) Occupation (e.g., Smith) Date (e.g., 1 May 1200)

ROLES

is grantor of is father or

is located W of occurs on

is the same as        

                   RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN ENTITIES (TRIPLES) ENTITY --- ROLE --- ENTITY

John is the father of Thomas grant occurs on 1 May 1200 Thomas is the grantor of Blackacre Blackacre is located W of London

Thomas Smith of York, son of Hugh

Thomas of York, smith, son of Hugh

Thomas fitz Hugh, of York, smith

Marking Up Persons    

Thomas Smith of York, son of Hugh

Thomas of York, smith, son of Hugh

Thomas fitz Hugh, of York, smith

Marking Up Persons    

Thomas Smith of York, son of Hugh is son of

Thomas of York, smith, son of Hugh

Thomas fitz Hugh, of York, smith

Marking Up Persons is  from  

Marking Up Places

Bishop John grants income from land in the hundred of Wells to Glastonbury Abbey, namely from the woods called the Grava bounded to the north by a stream and to the south by Robert son of Adam’s farm, and from….

Marking Up Places

Bishop John grants income from land in the hundred of Wells to Glastonbury Abbey, namely from the woods called the Grava bounded to the north by a stream and to the south by Robert son of Adam’s farm, and from….

Marking Up Places

Bishop John grants income from land in the hundred of Wells to Glastonbury Abbey, namely from the woods called the Grava bounded to the north by a stream and to the south by Robert son of Adam’s farm, and from….

Bishop John grants income from land in the hundred of Wells to Glastonbury Abbey, namely from the woods called the Grava bounded to the north by a stream and to the south by Robert son of Adam’s farm, and from….

Charter Annotation

Relational Information Vicars Choral 408

Matching Relational Information Vicars Choral 408

Vicars Choral 409

Inter-Charter Probability •  Statistics

p(Thomas) = 0.12 (common name) p(Josce) = 0.0015 (uncommon name) p(Goldsmith) = 0.04 (common profession)

•  Dating

vc-408 1252-1253 vc-409 1253-1261

•  Final confidence

conf (Thomas 408, Thomas 409) = 0.9993 i.e., there is a 99% chance that the Thomas in doc. 408

and the Thomas in doc. 409 are the same person

ChartEx Virtual Workbench

Charter Networks corner    Steyngate/Petergate  

third  property  on  Petergate  

ChartEx: Tools for the Analysis of Medieval

Charters

www.chartex.org

Adam Kosto Columbia University

Universität Zürich 10 November 2016