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

Frédéric Kaplan, Maud Ehrmann, Matteo Romanello, Sven Nicolas Yoann Najem-Meyer, 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 ( ...

Association for Computational Linguistics2024

Lausanne Historical Censuses Dataset HTR 35k

Rémi Guillaume Petitpierre, Lucas Arnaud André Rappo, Marion Kramer

This training dataset includes a total of 34,913 manually transcribed text segments. It is dedicated to the handwritten text recognition (HTR) of historical sources, typically tabular records, such as censuses. This dataset is based on a sample of 83 pages ...

Zenodo2023

1805-1898 Census Records of Lausanne : a Long Digital Dataset for Demographic History

Isabella Di Lenardo, Rémi Guillaume Petitpierre, Lucas Arnaud André Rappo, Marion Kramer

This historical dataset stems from the project of automatic extraction of 72 census records of Lausanne, Switzerland. The complete dataset covers a century of historical demography in Lausanne (1805-1898), which corresponds to 18,831 pages, and nearly 6 mi ...

Zenodo2023

Digitised Newspapers – A New Eldorado for Historians? Reflections on Tools, Methods and Epistemology

Maud Ehrmann

The application of digital technologies to historical newspapers has changed the research landscape historians were used to. An Eldorado? Despite undeniable advantages, the new digital affordance of historical newspapers also transforms research practices ...

De Gruyter2022

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The massive amounts of digitized historical documents acquired over the last decades naturally lend themselves to automatic processing and exploration.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