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[A New Attempt of Digitalization Study about Ming Letters: Based on Harvard University CSA Ming Letters Project(CHEN Shiyin, 2023)](/file_url/688)

[Automatic Biographical Information Extraction from Local Gazetteers with Bi-LSTM-CRF Model and BERT(LIU Zhou, WANG Hongsu, Peter Bol, 2022)](/file_url/690)

[Structuring, Recording, and Analyzing Historical Networks in the China Biographical Database(Michael Fuller, WANG Hongsu, 2021)](/file_url/691)

[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)](/file_url/693)

[Semi-Automating-the-Transformation-of-Chinese-Historical-Records-Into-Structured-Biographical-Data (TSUI Lik Hang, WANG Hongsu, 2021, Chinese version translated by XU Yang)](/file_url/685)

[Research on the Application of Knowledge Graph in Digital Humanities(CHEN Tao, LIU Wei, SHAN Rongrong & ZHU Qinghua, 2019)](/file_url/618)

[Sentence segmentation for classical Chinese based on LSTM with radical embedding (Han Xu,Wang Hongsu,Zhang Sanqian,Fu Qunchao,Liu Jun 2019)](/file_url/613)

[Semi-Automating-the-Transformation-of-Chinese-Historical-Records-Into-Structured-Biographical-Data (Lik Hang Tsui, Hongsu Wang, 2019)](https://www.igi-global.com/chapter/semi-automating-the-transformation-of-chinese-historical-records-into-structured-biographical-data/220631)

[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)](https://cbdb.hsites.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum3101/files/2026-06/what_the_humanist_can_do_in_constructing_humanity_database.pdf)

[From Text to Data: Extracting Posting Data from Chinese Local Gazetteers(Wai-Him Pang, Hui Cheng, Shih-Pei Chen, 2014)](/file_url/591)

[A\_regex\_machine\_yamangil\_chen\_bol.pdf](https://cbdb.hsites.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum3101/files/cbdb/files/a_regex_machine_yamangil_chen_bol.pdf)

This is the paper shown in the [2012 Text as Data Conference](http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/ptr/event/new-directions-analyzing-text-data) explaining the CBDB Regex Machine.

[The Late Robert M. Hartwell "Chinese Historical Studies, Ltd." Software Project (Peter Bol, 1999)](/file_url/627)

[History of Design of CBDB: Database Structure and Interface (Michael Fuller, 2025)](https://cbdb.hsites.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum3101/files/2026-01/history_of_design_of_cbdb.pdf)