Historical Research Report

A Historical Report of Plague Outbreak in Northwestern Iran, 1966

Plague is an endemic disease to the west of Iran and has frequently stricken this area over the last decades. In 1954, Pasteur Institute of Iran established a research station in the west of the country and since then has monitored the plague outbreaks as well as the disease status in rodents and carnivores by dispatching research teams to different villages and localities. We noticed that ther...

Historical Event Extraction from Text

In this paper, we report on how historical events are extracted from text within the Semantics of History research project. The project aims at the creation of resources for a historical information retrieval system that can handle the time-based dynamics and varying perspectives of Dutch historical archives. The historical event extraction module will be used for museum collections, allowing u...

Report to the Us Department of Energy on the Thermophotovoltaic Research at Western Washington University 1994-1997 Historical Overview and Major Accomplishments

Institute of Historical Research Centre for Metropolitan History Annual Report 1997 – 8 & Tenth Anniversary Conference Papers

Generating Newswire Report Leads with Historical Information: a Draft and Revision Approach

In this paper I investigate the issue of providing historical background in computer-generated reports. I rst observe that ignoring this issue is the most drastic limitation of existing report generation systems. I then present an empirical corpus analysis of basketball summaries aimed at discovering the speciic means by which historical information is conveyed in human-generated reports. This ...