ADHO Digital Humanities Conference 2023 (DH2023)
Published June 30, 2023 | Version v1
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Pre-Modern Data: Applying Language Modeling and Named Entity Recognition on Criminal Records in the City of Bern

Authors/Creators

  • 1. University of Bern, Switzerland
  • 2. University of Bern, Switzerland; University of Basel, Switzerland
  • 3. University of Bern, Switzerland; Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg, Austria

Contributors

  • 1. University of Graz
  • 2. Belgrade Center for Digital Humanities
  • 3. Le Mans Université
  • 4. Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum

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How can NLP technologies be applied and measured on pre-modern documents? Based on a large handwritten dataset from the tower of Bern, we tested available language models and taggers, showcasing that specific forms of representation and identification need to be found. Relying on cooperation to further improve information retrieval.

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Book: 10.5281/zenodo.7961822 (DOI)