Working Papers

A New Attempt of Digitalization Study about Ming Letters: Based on Harvard University CSA Ming Letters Project(CHEN Shiyin, 2023)

Automatic Biographical Information Extraction from Local Gazetteers with Bi-LSTM-CRF Model and BERT(LIU Zhou, WANG Hongsu, Peter Bol, 2022)

Structuring, Recording, and Analyzing Historical Networks in the China Biographical Database(Michael Fuller, WANG Hongsu, 2021)

The History, Methods, and Future of the China Biographical Database(CBDB) Project (Peter Bol, WANG Hongsu, Michael Fuller, CHEN Song, LIU Zhou, ZHU Houquan, 2021)

Semi-Automating-the-Transformation-of-Chinese-Historical-Records-Into-Structured-Biographical-Data (TSUI Lik Hang, WANG Hongsu, 2021, Chinese version translated by XU Yang)

Research on the Application of Knowledge Graph in Digital Humanities(CHEN Tao, LIU Wei, SHAN Rongrong & ZHU Qinghua, 2019)

Sentence segmentation for classical Chinese based on LSTM with radical embedding (Han Xu,Wang Hongsu,Zhang Sanqian,Fu Qunchao,Liu Jun 2019)

Semi-Automating-the-Transformation-of-Chinese-Historical-Records-Into-Structured-Biographical-Data (Lik Hang Tsui, Hongsu Wang, 2019)

What the humanist can do in constructing Humanity database: Taking the extraction of kinship data from Epitaphs in Quansongwen as an Example (Peihui Chen, 2018)

From Text to Data: Extracting Posting Data from Chinese Local Gazetteers(Wai-Him Pang, Hui Cheng, Shih-Pei Chen, 2014)

A_regex_machine_yamangil_chen_bol.pdf

This is the paper shown in the 2012 Text as Data Conference explaining the CBDB Regex Machine.

The Late Robert M. Hartwell "Chinese Historical Studies, Ltd." Software Project (Peter Bol, 1999)

History of Design of CBDB: Database Structure and Interface (Michael Fuller, 2025)