6 papers
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Diachronic Document Dataset for Semantic Layout Analysis
Thibault Clérice, Juliette Janes, Hugo Scheithauer +5
We present a novel, open-access dataset designed for semantic layout analysis, built to support document recreation workflows through mapping with the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI…