On the annotation of vague expressions: a case study on Romanian historical texts

Abstract

Current approaches in Digital.Humanities tend to ignore a central aspect of any hermeneutic introspection: the intrinsic vagueness of analyzed texts. Especially when dealing with historical documents neglecting vagueness has important implications on the interpretation of the results. In this paper we present current limitation of annotation approaches and describe a current methodology for annotating vagueness for historical Romanian texts.