5 papers
TextileNet: Towards Zero-shot Text-style Segmentation of Manuscripts
Anguelos Nicolaou, Antonella Ambrosio, Desiree Di Donato +1
Automatic writer identification systems have progressed remarkably in recent years, yet their deployment in archival paleography remains limited by the scarcity of labeled training…
Letter Lemmatization: One-to-one and Banded RNNs for Reversing Character-Set Simplification and Abbreviation in Medieval Text
Anguelos Nicolaou, Maria Pia Tiseo, Tamas Kovacs +2
Medieval document transcribers have very different practices; on top of that, heterogeneous digitization policies have resulted in corpora where the character-set must be viewed as…
Efficient Annotation of Medieval Charters
Anguelos Nicolaou, Daniel Luger, Franziska Decker +3
Diplomatics, the analysis of medieval charters, is a major field of research in which paleography is applied. Annotating data, if performed by laymen, needs validation and correcti…
A Multistakeholder Approach to Value-Driven Co-Design of Recommender System Evaluation Metrics in Digital Archives
Florian Atzenhofer-Baumgartner, Georg Vogeler, Dominik Kowald
This paper presents the first multistakeholder approach for translating diverse stakeholder values into an evaluation metric setup for Recommender Systems (RecSys) in digital archi…
Challenges in Implementing a Recommender System for Historical Research in the Humanities
Florian Atzenhofer-Baumgartner, Bernhard C. Geiger, Christoph Trattner +2
This extended abstract describes the challenges in implementing recommender systems for digital archives in the humanities, focusing on Monasterium.net, a platform for historical l…