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In this article we investigate the possibilities to extract Library of Congress Subject Headings from texts. The large number of ambiguous terms turns out to be a problem. Disambiguation of subject headings seems to have potentials to improve the extraction results.
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We use the namespace lcsh for http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/
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Aga, R.T., Wartena, C., Franke-Maier, M. (2016). Automatic Recognition and Disambiguation of Library of Congress Subject Headings. In: Fuhr, N., Kovács, L., Risse, T., Nejdl, W. (eds) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. TPDL 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9819. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43997-6_40
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