Gandhipedia: A one-stop AI-enabled portal for browsing Gandhian literature, life-events and his social network

TL;DR

Gandhipedia is an AI-powered interactive portal that visualizes Mahatma Gandhi's life events and social network through analysis of his literature, enabling users to explore key entities and their relationships over time.

Contribution

This work introduces a novel AI-enabled web portal that visualizes Gandhi's life and social network using entity extraction and interactive visualization from his writings.

Findings

Effective visualization of Gandhi's social network and life events.

Interactive search feature for detailed entity information.

Integration of NLP tools for entity extraction from historical texts.

Abstract

We introduce an AI-enabled portal that presents an excellent visualization of Mahatma Gandhi's life events by constructing temporal and spatial social networks from the Gandhian literature. Applying an ensemble of methods drawn from NLTK, Polyglot and Spacy we extract the key persons and places that find mentions in Gandhi's written works. We visualize these entities and connections between them based on co-mentions within the same time frame as networks in an interactive web portal. The nodes in the network, when clicked, fire search queries about the entity and all the information about the entity presented in the corresponding book from which the network is constructed, are retrieved and presented back on the portal. Overall, this system can be used as a digital and user-friendly resource to study Gandhian literature.