Extracting Toponyms from Maps of Jerusalem

Introduction & Motivation

Example of Muqarnas structure

1. Simple Muqarnas: the ceilings have plane surfaces only

Elements defined by Al Kashi

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Methodology

Create the 2D plan and the 3D volume

- Step 1:

- Step 2:

Project Plan

Date	Task	Completion
Week 4	Finalize and present project proposals. Toponym extraction project selected.	✓
Week 5	Survey SOTA toponym extraction tools. Port MapKurator into Windows-based Python, implement on a sample map.	✓
Week 6		✓
Week 7	Create ground truth labels for first map.	✓
Week 8	Create ground truth labels for second map. Implement 1:1-matched precision and recall via IoU (geometry) and normalized Levenshtein (text)	✓
Week 9	Implement multi-layer pyramid approach to toponym extraction	✓
Week 10	Create ground truth labels for third map. Implement toponym rectification and amalgamation algorithms.	✓
Week 11	Calculate accuracy statistics for pyramid approach Deliver Midterm presentation.	✓
Week 12	Launch Wiki. Group words into toponyms via polygon size and location. Apply NLP tools to correct toponyms.
Week 13	Create ground truth labels for fourth map. Calculate final accuracy statistics. Hierarchize final toponyms and develop Voronoi map.
Week 14	Prototype toponym-disagreement visualizer. Finalize Wiki and deliver presentation.

Github Repository

Jerusalem Maps EPFL DH405

References

Literature

• Kim, Jina, et al. "The mapKurator System: A Complete Pipeline for Extracting and Linking Text from Historical Maps." arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.17059 (2023).
• Li, Zekun, et al. "An automatic approach for generating rich, linked geo-metadata from historical map images." Proceedings of the 26th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining. 2020

Webpages

• MapKurator GitRepo
• MapKurator Introduction