Publications related to Textual criticism

Post-correction of Historical Text Transcripts with Large Language Models: An Exploratory Study

Frédéric Kaplan, Maud Ehrmann, Matteo Romanello, Sven-Nicolas Yoann Najem, Emanuela Boros

The quality of automatic transcription of heritage documents, whether from printed, manuscripts or audio sources, has a decisive impact on the ability to search and process historical texts. Although significant progress has been made in text recognition ( ...

The Association for Computational Linguistics2024

Optical Character Recognition of 19th Century Classical Commentaries: the Current State of Affairs

Matteo Romanello, Sven-Nicolas Yoann Najem

Together with critical editions and translations, commentaries are one of the main genres of publication in literary and textual scholarship, and have a century-long tradition. Yet, the exploitation of thousands of digitized historical commentaries was hit ...

ACM Digital Library2021

Optical Character Recognition of 19th Century Classical Commentaries: the Current State of Affairs

Matteo Romanello, Sven-Nicolas Yoann Najem

Together with critical editions and translations, commentaries are one of the main genres of publication in literary and textual scholarship, and have a century-long tradition. Yet, the exploitation of thousands of digitized historical commentaries was hit ...

2021

Combining Visual and Textual Features for Semantic Segmentation of Historical Newspapers

Frédéric Kaplan, Maud Ehrmann, Sofia Ares Oliveira, Raphaël Barman

The massive amounts of digitized historical documents acquired over the last decades naturally lend themselves to automatic processing and exploration. Research work seeking to automatically process facsimiles and extract information thereby are multiplyin ...

2021

Overview of CLEF HIPE 2020: Named Entity Recognition and Linking on Historical Newspapers

Maud Ehrmann, Matteo Romanello

This paper presents an overview of the first edition of HIPE (Identifying Historical People, Places and other Entities), a pioneering shared task dedicated to the evaluation of named entity processing on historical newspapers in French, German and English. ...

Springer2020

Extended Overview of CLEF HIPE 2020: Named Entity Processing on Historical Newspapers

Maud Ehrmann, Matteo Romanello

This paper presents an extended overview of the first edition of HIPE (Identifying Historical People, Places and other Entities), a pioneering shared task dedicated to the evaluation of named entity processing on historical newspapers in French, German and ...

CEUR-WS2020

Introducing the CLEF 2020 HIPE Shared Task: Named Entity Recognition and Linking on Historical Newspapers

Maud Ehrmann, Matteo Romanello

Since its introduction some twenty years ago, named entity (NE) processing has become an essential component of virtually any text mining application and has undergone major changes. Recently, two main trends characterise its developments: the adoption of ...

Springer International Publishing2020

Upgrading the Newsroom: An Automated Image Selection System for News Articles

Karl Aberer, Rémi Philippe Lebret, Fangyu Liu

We propose an automated image selection system to assist photo editors in selecting suitable images for news articles. The system fuses multiple textual sources extracted from news articles and accepts multilingual inputs. It is equipped with char-level wo ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2020

The Intellectual Organisation of History

Giovanni Colavizza

A tradition of scholarship discusses the characteristics of different areas of knowledge, in particular after modern academia compartmentalized them into disciplines. The academic approach is often put to question: are there two or more cultures? Is an eve ...

EPFL2018

A New Text-Independent GMM Writer Identification System Applied to Arabic Handwriting

Fouad Slimane

This paper proposes a system for text-independent writer identification based on Arabic handwriting using only 21 features. Gaussian Mixture Models (GMMs) are used as the core of the system. GMMs provide a powerful representation of the distribution of fea ...

2014

Textual criticism

Post-correction of Historical Text Transcripts with Large Language Models: An Exploratory Study

Optical Character Recognition of 19th Century Classical Commentaries: the Current State of Affairs

Optical Character Recognition of 19th Century Classical Commentaries: the Current State of Affairs

Combining Visual and Textual Features for Semantic Segmentation of Historical Newspapers

Overview of CLEF HIPE 2020: Named Entity Recognition and Linking on Historical Newspapers

Extended Overview of CLEF HIPE 2020: Named Entity Processing on Historical Newspapers

Introducing the CLEF 2020 HIPE Shared Task: Named Entity Recognition and Linking on Historical Newspapers

Upgrading the Newsroom: An Automated Image Selection System for News Articles

The Intellectual Organisation of History

A New Text-Independent GMM Writer Identification System Applied to Arabic Handwriting

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Post-correction of Historical Text Transcripts with Large Language Models: An Exploratory Study

Optical Character Recognition of 19th Century Classical Commentaries: the Current State of Affairs

The Intellectual Organisation of History

Optical Character Recognition of 19th Century Classical Commentaries: the Current State of Affairs

Introducing the CLEF 2020 HIPE Shared Task: Named Entity Recognition and Linking on Historical Newspapers

Upgrading the Newsroom: An Automated Image Selection System for News Articles

A New Text-Independent GMM Writer Identification System Applied to Arabic Handwriting

Extended Overview of CLEF HIPE 2020: Named Entity Processing on Historical Newspapers

Overview of CLEF HIPE 2020: Named Entity Recognition and Linking on Historical Newspapers

Combining Visual and Textual Features for Semantic Segmentation of Historical Newspapers