8 papers
Mapping Armenian Paris: Extracting and Geocoding Commercial Advertisements from the 20th-Century Diaspora Press
Chahan Vidal-Gorène, Seda Kirakosyan, Edita Matevosyan
This paper presents an end-to-end, IIIF-based pipeline that turns the digitised Armenian press of France into an interactive map of the 20th-century Parisian Armenian commercial co…
Semantic-Guided Reading Order Reconstruction in Historical Armenian Newspapers with LLMs
Chahan Vidal-Gorène, Nadi Tomeh, Victoria Khurshudyan
This paper addresses reading order reconstruction in historical Armenian newspapers, which combine complex layouts with limited language resources. We introduce a new annotated dat…
Timing In stand-up Comedy: Text, Audio, Laughter, Kinesics (TIC-TALK): Pipeline and Database for the Multimodal Study of Comedic Timing
Yaelle Zribi, Florian Cafiero, Vincent Lépinay +1
Stand-up comedy, and humor in general, are often studied through their verbal content. Yet live performance relies just as much on embodied presence and audience feedback. We intro…
The Patrologia Graeca Corpus: OCR, Annotation, and Open Release of Noisy Nineteenth-Century Polytonic Greek Editions
Chahan Vidal-Gorène, Bastien Kindt
We present the Patrologia Graeca Corpus, the first large-scale open OCR and linguistic resource for nineteenthcentury editions of Ancient Greek. The collection covers the remaining…
Under-resourced studies of under-resourced languages: lemmatization and POS-tagging with LLM annotators for historical Armenian, Georgian, Greek and Syriac
Chahan Vidal-Gorène, Bastien Kindt, Florian Cafiero
Low-resource languages pose persistent challenges for Natural Language Processing tasks such as lemmatization and part-of-speech (POS) tagging. This paper investigates the capacity…
From Veracity to Diffusion: Adressing Operational Challenges in Moving From Fake-News Detection to Information Disorders
Francesco Paolo Savatteri, Chahan Vidal-Gorène, Florian Cafiero
A wide part of research on misinformation has relied lies on fake-news detection, a task framed as the prediction of veracity labels attached to articles or claims. Yet social-scie…
New Results for the Text Recognition of Arabic Maghrib{ī} Manuscripts -- Managing an Under-resourced Script
Lucas Noëmie, Clément Salah, Chahan Vidal-Gorène
HTR models development has become a conventional step for digital humanities projects. The performance of these models, often quite high, relies on manual transcription and numerou…
Handling Heavily Abbreviated Manuscripts: HTR engines vs text normalisation approaches
Jean-Baptiste Camps, Chahan Vidal-Gorène, Marguerite Vernet
Although abbreviations are fairly common in handwritten sources, particularly in medieval and modern Western manuscripts, previous research dealing with computational approaches to…