TY - GEN
T1 - To honor our heroes
T2 - 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2020
AU - Cheong, Marc
AU - Alfano, Mark
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Obituaries represent a prominent way of expressing the human universal of grief. According to philosophers, obituaries are a ritualized way of evaluating both individuals who have passed away and the communities that helped to shape them. The basic idea is that you can tell what it takes to count as a good person of a particular type in a particular community by seeing how persons of that type are described and celebrated in their obituaries. Obituaries of those killed in conflict, in particular, are rich repositories of communal values, as they reflect the values and virtues that are admired and respected in individuals who are considered to be heroes in their communities. In this paper, we use natural language processing techniques to map the patterns of values and virtues attributed to Australian military personnel who were killed in action during World War I and World War II. Doing so reveals several clusters of values and virtues that tend to be attributed together. In addition, we use named entity recognition and geotagging the track the movements of these soldiers to various theatres of the wars, including North Africa, Europe, and the Pacific.
AB - Obituaries represent a prominent way of expressing the human universal of grief. According to philosophers, obituaries are a ritualized way of evaluating both individuals who have passed away and the communities that helped to shape them. The basic idea is that you can tell what it takes to count as a good person of a particular type in a particular community by seeing how persons of that type are described and celebrated in their obituaries. Obituaries of those killed in conflict, in particular, are rich repositories of communal values, as they reflect the values and virtues that are admired and respected in individuals who are considered to be heroes in their communities. In this paper, we use natural language processing techniques to map the patterns of values and virtues attributed to Australian military personnel who were killed in action during World War I and World War II. Doing so reveals several clusters of values and virtues that tend to be attributed together. In addition, we use named entity recognition and geotagging the track the movements of these soldiers to various theatres of the wars, including North Africa, Europe, and the Pacific.
KW - Applications of document analysis
KW - Historical document analysis
KW - Human behavior analysis
KW - Natural language processing
KW - Obituary
KW - Value
KW - Virtue
KW - Wellbeing
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85110542780&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICPR48806.2021.9413145
DO - 10.1109/ICPR48806.2021.9413145
M3 - Conference proceeding contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85110542780
T3 - Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition
SP - 6965
EP - 6972
BT - Proceedings of ICPR 2020
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
CY - Milan
Y2 - 10 January 2021 through 15 January 2021
ER -