Publications by Matteo Romanello

Post-correction of Historical Text Transcripts with Large Language Models: An Exploratory Study

Frédéric Kaplan, Maud Ehrmann, Matteo Romanello, Sven-Nicolas Yoann Najem, Emanuela Boros

The quality of automatic transcription of heritage documents, whether from printed, manuscripts or audio sources, has a decisive impact on the ability to search and process historical texts. Although significant progress has been made in text recognition ( ...

Association for Computational Linguistics2024

A Named Entity-Annotated Corpus of 19th Century Classical Commentaries

Matteo Romanello, Sven-Nicolas Yoann Najem

We release a multilingual named entity (NE) corpus of 19th century commentaries to Sophocles’ Ajax. Selected commentaries are written in English, German and French, but are also replete with Latin and Greek quotes. Bibliographic entities were annotated alo ...

2024

impresso Text Reuse at Scale. An interface for the exploration of text reuse data in semantically enriched historical newspapers

Maud Ehrmann, Matteo Romanello

Text Reuse reveals meaningful reiterations of text in large corpora. Humanities researchers use text reuse to study, e.g., the posterior reception of influential texts or to reveal evolving publication practices of historical media. This research is often ...

2023

ECCE: Entity-centric Corpus Exploration Using Contextual Implicit Networks

Maud Ehrmann, Matteo Romanello, Andreas Oliver Spitz

In the Digital Age, the analysis and exploration of unstructured document collections is of central importance to members of investigative professions, whether they might be scholars, journalists, paralegals, or analysts. In many of their domains, entities ...

ACM Digital Press2022

Introducing the HIPE 2022 Shared Task: Named Entity Recognition and Linking in Multilingual Historical Documents

Maud Ehrmann, Matteo Romanello

We present the HIPE-2022 shared task on named entity processing in multilingual historical documents. Following the success of the first CLEF-HIPE-2020 evaluation lab, this edition confronts systems with the challenges of dealing with more languages, learn ...

Springer International Publishing2022

HIPE-2022 Shared Task Named Entity Datasets

Maud Ehrmann, Matteo Romanello

HIPE-2022 datasets used for the HIPE 2022 shared task on named entity recognition and classification (NERC) and entity linking (EL) in multilingual historical documents. HIPE-2022 datasets are based on six primary datasets assembled and prepared for the sh ...

2022

Overview of HIPE-2022: Named Entity Recognition and Linking in Multilingual Historical Documents

Maud Ehrmann, Matteo Romanello, Sven-Nicolas Yoann Najem

This paper presents an overview of the second edition of HIPE (Identifying Historical People, Places and other Entities), a shared task on named entity recognition and linking in multilingual historical documents. Following the success of the first CLEF-HI ...

Springer2022

Page Layout Analysis of Text-heavy Historical Documents: a Comparison of Textual and Visual Approaches

Matteo Romanello, Sven-Nicolas Yoann Najem

Page layout analysis is a fundamental step in document processing which enables to segment a page into regions of interest. With highly complex layouts and mixed scripts, scholarly commentaries are text-heavy documents which remain challenging for state-of ...

2022

Optical Character Recognition of 19th Century Classical Commentaries: the Current State of Affairs

Matteo Romanello, Sven-Nicolas Yoann Najem

Together with critical editions and translations, commentaries are one of the main genres of publication in literary and textual scholarship, and have a century-long tradition. Yet, the exploitation of thousands of digitized historical commentaries was hit ...

ACM Digital Library2021

Optical Character Recognition of 19th Century Classical Commentaries: the Current State of Affairs

Matteo Romanello, Sven-Nicolas Yoann Najem

Together with critical editions and translations, commentaries are one of the main genres of publication in literary and textual scholarship, and have a century-long tradition. Yet, the exploitation of thousands of digitized historical commentaries was hit ...

2021

CLEF-HIPE-2020 Shared Task Named Entity Datasets

Maud Ehrmann, Matteo Romanello

CLEF-HIPE-2020 (Identifying Historical People, Places and other Entities) is a evaluation campaign on named entity processing on historical newspapers in French, German and English, which was organized in the context of the impresso project and run as a CL ...

2020

Language Resources for Historical Newspapers: the Impresso Collection

Raphaël Barman, Maud Ehrmann, Matteo Romanello

Following decades of massive digitization, an unprecedented amount of historical document facsimiles can now be retrieved and accessed via cultural heritage online portals. If this represents a huge step forward in terms of preservation and accessibility, ...

European Language Resources Association2020

Extended Overview of CLEF HIPE 2020: Named Entity Processing on Historical Newspapers

Maud Ehrmann, Matteo Romanello

This paper presents an extended overview of the first edition of HIPE (Identifying Historical People, Places and other Entities), a pioneering shared task dedicated to the evaluation of named entity processing on historical newspapers in French, German and ...

CEUR-WS2020

Historical Newspaper Content Mining: Revisiting the impresso Project's Challenges in Text and Image Processing, Design and Historical Scholarship

Frédéric Kaplan, Maud Ehrmann, Matteo Romanello

Long abstract for a presentation at DH2020 (online). ...

ADHO2020

Impresso Named Entity Annotation Guidelines (CLEF-HIPE-2020)

Maud Ehrmann, Matteo Romanello

Impresso annotation guidelines used in the context of corpus annotation for the HIPE shared task (CLEF 2020 Evaluation Lab). CLEF-HIPE-2020 shared task: https://impresso.github.io/CLEF-HIPE-2020/ Impresso project: https://impresso-project.ch ...

2020

Overview of CLEF HIPE 2020: Named Entity Recognition and Linking on Historical Newspapers

Maud Ehrmann, Matteo Romanello

This paper presents an overview of the first edition of HIPE (Identifying Historical People, Places and other Entities), a pioneering shared task dedicated to the evaluation of named entity processing on historical newspapers in French, German and English. ...

Springer2020

The impresso system architecture in a nutshell

Maud Ehrmann, Matteo Romanello

This post describes the impresso application architecture and processing in a nutshell. The text was published in October 2020 in issue number 16 of the EuropeanaTech Insights dedicated to digitized newspapers and edited by Gregory Markus and Clemens Neude ...

EuropeanaTech Insights2020

Introducing the CLEF 2020 HIPE Shared Task: Named Entity Recognition and Linking on Historical Newspapers

Maud Ehrmann, Matteo Romanello

Since its introduction some twenty years ago, named entity (NE) processing has become an essential component of virtually any text mining application and has undergone major changes. Recently, two main trends characterise its developments: the adoption of ...

Springer International Publishing2020

Citation Mining of Humanities Journals: The Progress to Date and the Challenges Ahead

Giovanni Colavizza, Matteo Romanello

Even large citation indexes such as the Web of Science, Scopus or Google Scholar cover only a small fraction of the literature in the humanities. This coverage sensibly decreases going backwards in time. Citation mining of humanities publications — defined ...

2019

Linked Books: un indice citazionale per la storia di Venezia

Giovanni Colavizza, Matteo Romanello

We present the outcomes of the Linked Books project, resulting in a prototype citation index interlinking the Italian national library catalog (Opac SBN) with the information system of the State Archive of Venice and international authority records or “met ...

2019