Publications by Matteo Romanello

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

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

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 ( ...

Association for Computational Linguistics2024

A Named Entity-Annotated Corpus of 19th Century Classical Commentaries

Matteo Romanello, Sven-Nicolas Yoann Najem

We release a multilingual named entity (NE) corpus of 19th century commentaries to Sophocles’ Ajax. Selected commentaries are written in English, German and French, but are also replete with Latin and Greek quotes. Bibliographic entities were annotated alo ...

2024

impresso Text Reuse at Scale. An interface for the exploration of text reuse data in semantically enriched historical newspapers

Maud Ehrmann, Matteo Romanello

Text Reuse reveals meaningful reiterations of text in large corpora. Humanities researchers use text reuse to study, e.g., the posterior reception of influential texts or to reveal evolving publication practices of historical media. This research is often ...

2023

ECCE: Entity-centric Corpus Exploration Using Contextual Implicit Networks

Maud Ehrmann, Matteo Romanello, Andreas Oliver Spitz

In the Digital Age, the analysis and exploration of unstructured document collections is of central importance to members of investigative professions, whether they might be scholars, journalists, paralegals, or analysts. In many of their domains, entities ...

ACM Digital Press2022

Introducing the HIPE 2022 Shared Task: Named Entity Recognition and Linking in Multilingual Historical Documents

Maud Ehrmann, Matteo Romanello

We present the HIPE-2022 shared task on named entity processing in multilingual historical documents. Following the success of the first CLEF-HIPE-2020 evaluation lab, this edition confronts systems with the challenges of dealing with more languages, learn ...

Springer International Publishing2022

HIPE-2022 Shared Task Named Entity Datasets

Maud Ehrmann, Matteo Romanello

HIPE-2022 datasets used for the HIPE 2022 shared task on named entity recognition and classification (NERC) and entity linking (EL) in multilingual historical documents. HIPE-2022 datasets are based on six primary datasets assembled and prepared for the sh ...

2022

Overview of HIPE-2022: Named Entity Recognition and Linking in Multilingual Historical Documents

Maud Ehrmann, Matteo Romanello, Sven-Nicolas Yoann Najem

This paper presents an overview of the second edition of HIPE (Identifying Historical People, Places and other Entities), a shared task on named entity recognition and linking in multilingual historical documents. Following the success of the first CLEF-HI ...

Springer2022

Page Layout Analysis of Text-heavy Historical Documents: a Comparison of Textual and Visual Approaches

Matteo Romanello, Sven-Nicolas Yoann Najem

Page layout analysis is a fundamental step in document processing which enables to segment a page into regions of interest. With highly complex layouts and mixed scripts, scholarly commentaries are text-heavy documents which remain challenging for state-of ...

2022

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