Beschreibung:
Names perform a key function in texts: through their direct reference
to extra-linguistic objects, they provide immediate information about who
is doing what, who is affected by what, and about the places involved. Thus,
names also play a key role in the computer-based processing of texts. For the
use of semantic technologies, names and definite descriptions must be marked
up in texts. This set of references to extra-linguistic objects is largely subsumed
beneath the term ‚named entities‘ (NE) in information technology. This paper
discusses, first, the technical processes, methods and possible ways of representing
the contexts of large sets of names/named entities and, second, the
challenges posed by allonymic and orthographic variants of names in text processing.
Third, the substantive focus is on the differentiation between name and
definite description in the Early High German mining documents „Schwazer
Berglehenbuch“ and „Verleihbuch der Rattenberger Bergrichter“, which provide
information on individuals, places, mines and dates linked by the legal act
of lending.