Abstract
Our goal of this study is to contribute to the progress in historical science by developing a system for building a historical ontology from historical materials and making it available to the public.We digitize all the books of “Meiji-mae Nippon Kagaku-shi” (Pre-modern Japanese History of Science and Technology) published by Nippon Gakushiin (The Japan Academy), and extract the attribution and the works of scientists and engineers from the books to build a database of person information in pre-modern Japanese history.We extract the names of persons, positions, places, and books as the attribution and the works of persons by pattern matching.The experimental results show that the F-measures for the names of persons, positions, and places are over 0.8.
