Publications by Matteo Romanello

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Even large citation indexes such as the Web of Science, Scopus or Google Scholar cover only a small fraction of the literature in the humanities. This coverage sensibly decreases going backwards in time. Citation mining of humanities publications — defined ...

Following decades of massive digitization, an unprecedented amount of historical document facsimiles can now be retrieved and accessed via cultural heritage online portals.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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

The advent of large-scale citation indexes has greatly impacted the retrieval of scientific information in several domains of research. The humanities have largely remained outside of this shift, despite their increasing reliance on digital means for infor ...

The advent of large-scale citation services has greatly impacted the retrieval of scientific information for several domains of research. The Humanities have largely remained outside of this shift despite their increasing reliance on digital means for info ...

We publish a dataset containing more than 40’000 manually annotated references from a broad corpus of books and journal articles on the history of Venice. References were considered from both reference lists and footnotes, include primary and secondary sou ...

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Referring constitutes such an essential scholarly activity across disciplines that it has been regarded by [Unsworth 2000] as one of the scholarly primitives. In Classics, in particular, the references to passages of the ancient texts - the so-called canon ...

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 ...

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 ...

This post describes the impresso application architecture and processing in a nutshell. The text was published in October 2020 in issue number 16 of the EuropeanaTech Insights dedicated to digitized newspapers and edited by Gregory Markus and Clemens Neude ...

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 ...

Impresso annotation guidelines used in the context of corpus annotation for the HIPE shared task (CLEF 2020 Evaluation Lab). CLEF-HIPE-2020 shared task: https://impresso.github.io/CLEF-HIPE-2020/ Impresso project: https://impresso-project.ch ...

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 ...

We describe a domain-specific knowledge base aimed at supporting the extraction of bibliographic references in the domain of Classics. In particular, we deal with references to canonical works of the Greek and Latin literature by providing a model that rep ...

We present the outcomes of the Linked Books project, resulting in a prototype citation index interlinking the Italian national library catalog (Opac SBN) with the information system of the State Archive of Venice and international authority records or “met ...

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Citation Mining of Humanities Journals: The Progress to Date and the Challenges Ahead

Language Resources for Historical Newspapers: the Impresso Collection

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

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

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

The references of references: a method to enrich humanities library catalogs with citation data

The References of References: Enriching Library Catalogs via Domain-Specific Reference Mining

Annotated References in the Historiography on Venice: 19th–21st centuries

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

Historical Newspaper Content Mining: Revisiting the impresso Project's Challenges in Text and Image Processing, Design and Historical Scholarship

Exploring Citation Networks to Study Intertextuality in Classics

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

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

The impresso system architecture in a nutshell

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

Impresso Named Entity Annotation Guidelines (CLEF-HIPE-2020)

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

Using Linked Open Data to Bootstrap a Knowledge Base of Classical Texts

Linked Books: un indice citazionale per la storia di Venezia