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A Simple Set of Rules for Characters and Place Recognition in French Novels

Cyril Antoine Michel Bornet, Frédéric Kaplan

2017

Virtual reading of a large ancient handwritten science book

Giorgio Margaritondo, Frédéric Kaplan, Fauzia Albertin, Alessandra Patera, Marco Stampanoni

We present a fundamental development step of a new technique to read and digitize ancient handwritten documents. Chemical analysis by x-ray fluorescence and x-ray tomography enabled us to decipher words and drawings from inside a closed, 200-pages 18 th ce ...

Elsevier2016

Ancient administrative handwritten documents: virtual x-ray reading

Giorgio Margaritondo, Frédéric Kaplan, Fauzia Albertin

A method for detecting ink writings in a specimen comprising stacked pages, allowing a page-by-page reading without turning pages The method compris- es steps of taking a set of projection x-ray images for different positions of the specimen with respect t ...

2016

Diachronic Evaluation of NER Systems on Old Newspapers

Yannick Rochat, Frédéric Kaplan, Giovanni Colavizza, Maud Ehrmann

In recent years, many cultural institutions have engaged in large-scale newspaper digitization projects and large amounts of historical texts are being acquired (via transcription or OCRization). Beyond document preservation, the next step consists in prov ...

Bochumer Linguistische Arbeitsberichte2016

From Documents to Structured Data: First Milestones of the Garzoni Project

Frédéric Kaplan, Orlin Biserov Topalov, Giovanni Colavizza, Maud Ehrmann

Led by an interdisciplinary consortium, the Garzoni project undertakes the study of apprenticeship, work and society in early modern Venice by focusing on a specific archival source, namely the Accordi dei Garzoni from the Venetian State Archives. The proj ...

2016

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

Frédéric Kaplan, Giovanni Colavizza, Matteo Romanello

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 ...

2016

Navigating through 200 years of historical newspapers

Yannick Rochat, Cyril Antoine Michel Bornet, Frédéric Kaplan, Vincent Christian Buntinx, Maud Ehrmann

This paper aims to describe and explain the processes behind the creation of a digital library composed of two Swiss newspapers, namely Gazette de Lausanne (1798-1998) and Journal de Genève (1826-1998), covering an almost two-century period. We developed a ...

2016

Anatomy of a Drop-Off Reading Curve

Cyril Antoine Michel Bornet, Frédéric Kaplan

Not all readers finish the book they start to read. Electronic media allow to us to measure more precisely how this “drop-off” effect unfolds as readers are reading a book. A curve showing how many people have read each chapter of a book is likely to be pr ...

2015

Ancient administrative handwritten documents: X-ray analysis and imaging

Giorgio Margaritondo, Frédéric Kaplan, Fauzia Albertin

Handwritten characters in administrative antique documents from three centuries have been detected using different synchrotron X-ray imaging techniques. Heavy elements in ancient inks, present even for everyday administrative manuscripts as shown by X-ray ...

International Union of Crystallography2015

Venice Time Machine : Recreating the density of the past

Frédéric Kaplan, Isabella Di Lenardo

This article discusses the methodology used in the Venice Time Machine project (http://vtm.epfl.ch) to reconstruct a historical geographical information system covering the social and urban evolution of Venice over a period of 1,000 years. Given the time s ...

2015

A Map for Big Data Research in Digital Humanities

Frédéric Kaplan

This article is an attempt to represent Big Data research in digital humanities as a structured research field. A division in three concentric areas of study is presented. Challenges in the first circle – focusing on the processing and interpretations of l ...

2015

On Mining Citations to Primary and Secondary Sources in Historiography

Frédéric Kaplan, Giovanni Colavizza

We present preliminary results from the Linked Books project, which aims at analysing citations from the histo- riography on Venice. A preliminary goal is to extract and parse citations from any location in the text, especially footnotes, both to primary a ...

2015

X-ray spectrometry and imaging for ancient administrative handwritten documents

Giorgio Margaritondo, Frédéric Kaplan, Fauzia Albertin, Marco Stampanoni

‘Venice Time Machine’ is an international program whose objective is transforming the ‘Archivio di Stato’ – 80 km of archival records documenting every aspect of 1000 years of Venetian history – into an open-access digital information bank. Our study is pa ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Inversed N-gram viewer: Searching the space of word temporal profiles

Frédéric Kaplan, Vincent Christian Buntinx

2015

Mapping the Early Modern News Flow: An Enquiry by Robust Text Reuse Detection

Frédéric Kaplan, Giovanni Colavizza

Early modern printed gazettes relied on a system of news exchange and text reuse largely based on handwritten sources. The reconstruction of this information exchange system is possible by detecting reused texts. We present a method to individuate text bor ...

Springer International Publishing2015

Analyse des réseaux de personnages dans Les Confessions de Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Yannick Rochat, Frédéric Kaplan

Cet article étudie le concept de centralité dans les réseaux de personnages apparaissant dans Les Confessions de Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Notre objectif est ainsi de caractériser certains aspects des rôles des personnages du récit sur la base de leurs cooccu ...

2014

Virtual X-ray Reading (VXR) of Ancient Administrative Handwritten Documents

Giorgio Margaritondo, Frédéric Kaplan, Fauzia Albertin, Marco Stampanoni

The study of ancient documents is too often confined to specimens of high artistic value or to official writings. Yet, a wealth of information is often stored in administrative records such as ship records, notary papers, work contract, tax declaration, co ...

2014

Encoding metaknowledge for historical databases

Marc-Antoine Nüssli, Frédéric Kaplan

Historical knowledge is fundamentally uncertain. A given account of an historical event is typically based on a series of sources and on sequences of interpretation and reasoning based on these sources. Generally, the product of this historical research ta ...

2014

La simulation humaine : le roman-fleuve comme terrain d'expérimentation narrative

Cyril Antoine Michel Bornet, Frédéric Kaplan

Dans cet article nous présentons la démarche et les premiers résultats d’une recherche participative menée conjointement par le laboratoire d’humanités digitales de l’EPFL (DHLAB) et l’écrivain suisse Daniel de Roulet. Dans cette étude, nous explorons les ...

2014

Linguistic Capitalism and Algorithmic Mediation

Frédéric Kaplan

Google’s highly successful business model is based on selling words that appear in search queries. Organizing several million auctions per minute, the company has created the first global linguistic market and demonstrated that linguistic capitalism is a l ...

University of California Press2014

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