Publications by Sven-Nicolas Yoann Najem

Document processing in data-scarce, domain-specific environments: The case of multilingual classical commentaries

This dissertation investigates the challenges and opportunities of adapting state-of-the-art document processing algorithms to the intricate and relatively data-scarce field of classical scholarship. Focusing on classical commentaries â a type of publica ...

EPFL2025

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

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

Overview of HIPE-2022: Named Entity Recognition and Linking in Multilingual Historical Documents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Historical People, Places and other Entities), a shared task on named entity recognition and linking in multilingual historical documents.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Page Layout Analysis of Text-heavy Historical Documents: a Comparison of Textual and Visual Approaches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

Extended Overview of HIPE-2022: Named Entity Recognition and Linking in Multilingual Historical Documents

Maud Ehrmann, 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Historical People, Places and other Entities), a shared task on named entity recognition and linking in multilingual historical documents.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 ...

CEUR-WS2022

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