PATHS: A System for Accessing Cultural Heritage Collections

Eneko Agirre, Nikolaos Aletras, Paul D. Clough, Samuel Fernando, Paula Goodale, Mark M. Hall, Aitor Soroa, Mark Stevenson

Abstract: This paper describes a system for navigating large collections of information about cultural heritage which is applied to Europeana, the European Library. Europeana contains over 20 million artefacts with meta-data in a wide range of European languages. The system currently provides access to Europeana content with meta-data in English and Spanish. The paper describes how Natural Language Processing is used to enrich and organise this meta-data to assist navigation through Europeana and shows how this information is used within the system.