5 papers
Structure-Aware Text Recognition for Ancient Greek Critical Editions
Nicolas Angleraud, Antonia Karamolegkou, Benoît Sagot +1
Recent advances in visual language models (VLMs) have transformed end-to-end document understanding. However, their ability to interpret the complex layout semantics of historical…
CommonLID: Re-evaluating State-of-the-Art Language Identification Performance on Web Data
Pedro Ortiz Suarez, Laurie Burchell, Catherine Arnett +94
Language identification (LID) is a fundamental step in curating multilingual corpora. However, LID models still perform poorly for many languages, especially on the noisy and heter…
Reading or Guessing? Visual Grounding Failures of Vision-Language Models for OCR in Ancient Greek Editions
Antonia Karamolegkou, Nicolas Angleraud, Benoît Sagot +1
Recent work has shown that Vision-Language Models (VLMs) used for optical character recognition (OCR) can generate plausible but visually unsupported text, suggesting reliance on l…
How Should We Model the Probability of a Language?
Rasul Dent, Pedro Ortiz Suarez, Thibault Clérice +1
Of the over 7,000 languages spoken in the world, commercial language identification (LID) systems only reliably identify a few hundred in written form. Research-grade systems exten…
KréyoLID From Language Identification Towards Language Mining
Rasul Dent, Pedro Ortiz Suarez, Thibault Clérice +1
Automatic language identification is frequently framed as a multi-class classification problem. However, when creating digital corpora for less commonly written languages, it may b…