Overview of HIPE-2026: Person-Place Relation Extraction from Multilingual Historical Texts
Was this person ever at that place, and if so, when? Answering such questions from noisy, multilingual historical documents is the central challenge of HIPE-2026, the third edition of the HIPE evaluation series. Moving from named entity recognition and linking (HIPE-2020, HIPE-2022) to reasoning about relationships between entities, HIPE-2026 targets two temporally grounded relation types: $at$, indicating that a person was present at a location at some point prior to a document's publication date, and $isAt$, indicating presence contemporaneous with that date. This paper presents the results of the evaluation campaign, which confronted 17 participating teams with the challenges of histor...
| Authors | Juri Opitz, Maud Ehrmann, Corina Raclé et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.CL |
| Published | 24 June 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 24 June 2026 |
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