{"word_count": 173, "character_count": 1198}
Dear members of the Association française d’histoire économique,I am a PhD student at the University of Trento (Italy) and I work in the "Digital Humanities" research group at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (http://dh.fbk.eu).I'm working in the field of human language technologies, in particular my research is on the automatic recognition of events, temporal expressions and temporal relations in historical texts. In the context of my PhD research, I have prepared a questionnaire about the notion of “event” for historians and the interest towards the use of Natural Language Processing tools to support historical investigations. The URL of the questionnaire (in English) is the following: http://goo.gl/forms/OzVtGYLnm3The answers to the questionnaire will help me find out how historians define events expressed in texts and will contribute to develop linguistic annotation guidelines to train and test a tool for the automatic recognition of events, temporal expressions and temporal relations in historical texts.I would really appreciate if you could circulate the link to the questionnaire to the historians that are members of your association.Thanks in advance.Best Regards,Rachele Sprugnoli