Publications de Raphaël Barman

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The massive amounts of digitized historical documents acquired over the last decades naturally lend themselves to automatic processing and exploration.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

Une approche computationnelle du cadastre napoléonien de Venise

Frédéric Kaplan, Isabella Di Lenardo, Raphaël Barman, Federica Pardini

At the beginning of the 19th century, the Napoleonic administration introduced a new standardised description system to give an objective account of the form and functions of the city of Venice. The cadastre, deployed on a European scale, was offering for ...

2021

Datasets and Models for Historical Newspaper Article Segmentation

Maud Ehrmann, Sofia Ares Oliveira, Raphaël Barman

Dataset and models used and produced in the work described in the paper "Combining Visual and Textual Features for Semantic Segmentation of Historical Newspapers": https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/282863?ln=en ...

2021

Language Resources for Historical Newspapers: the Impresso Collection

Maud Ehrmann, Matteo Romanello, Raphaël Barman

Following decades of massive digitization, an unprecedented amount of historical document facsimiles can now be retrieved and accessed via cultural heritage online portals. If this represents a huge step forward in terms of preservation and accessibility, ...

European Language Resources Association2020

Repopulating Paris: massive extraction of 4 Million addresses from city directories between 1839 and 1922

Frédéric Kaplan, Isabella Di Lenardo, Raphaël Barman, Albane Bénédicte Descombes

In 1839, in Paris, the Maison Didot bought the Bottin company. Sébastien Bottin trained as a statistician was the initiator of a high impact yearly publication, called “Almanachs" containing the listing of residents, businesses and institutions, arranged g ...

Utrecht University2019