3 papers
cs.CL2026
Overview of HIPE-2026: Person-Place Relation Extraction from Multilingual Historical Texts
Juri Opitz, Maud Ehrmann, Corina Raclé +3
Was this person ever at that place, and if so, when? Answering such questions from noisy, multilingual historical documents is the central challenge of HIPE-2026, the third edition…
cs.CL2025
Apertus: Democratizing Open and Compliant LLMs for Global Language Environments
Project Apertus, Alejandro Hernández-Cano, Alexander Hägele +100
We present Apertus, a fully open suite of large language models (LLMs) designed to address two systemic shortcomings in today's open model ecosystem: data compliance and multilingu…
cs.CL2024
Investigating OCR-Sensitive Neurons to Improve Entity Recognition in Historical Documents
Emanuela Boros, Maud Ehrmann
This paper investigates the presence of OCR-sensitive neurons within the Transformer architecture and their influence on named entity recognition (NER) performance on historical do…