Recent publications of the lab are listed below, for a full list please refer to this search on infoscience.
2024
Journal Articles
Exploring cartographic genealogies through deformation analysis: case studies on ancient maps and synthetic data
Cartography and Geographic Information Science
2024
p. 1 – 21.DOI : 10.1080/15230406.2024.2424891
Digital Guardianship: Innovative Strategies in Preserving Armenian’s Epigraphic Legacy
Heritage
2024
Vol. 7 , num. 5.DOI : 10.3390/heritage7050109
Conference Papers
Cartographic Stemmatology: Segmenting Local Deformation Similarities in Historical Maps of Jerusalem
18th ICA Conference: Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage: Conference Proceedings
2024
18th Conference Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage, Bologna, Italy, 2024-10-23 – 2024-10-25.Deformative Signatures: Studying Cartographic Deformations as a Source of Knowledge in 19th Century Jerusalem
2024
30th International Conference on the History of Cartography, Lyon, France, 2024-07-01 – 2024-07-05.Post-correction of Historical Text Transcripts with Large Language Models: An Exploratory Study
Proceedings of the 8th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature (LaTeCH-CLfL 2024)
2024
The 8th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature, St Julian’s, Malta, March 22, 2024.p. 133 – 159
MapPool -Bubbling up an extremely large corpus of maps for AI
2024
2024 ICA Workshop on AI, Geovisualization, and Analytical Reasoning, Warsaw, Poland, 2024-09-07.Tracing Cartographic Errors in the Western Representation of 19th Century Jerusalem
Digital Humanities 2024: book of abstracts
2024
Digital Humanities 2024: Reinvention & Responsibility, Arlington, Virginia, USA, 2024-08-06 – 2024-08-09.Student Projects
Towards Chapterisation of Podcasts Detection of Host and Structuring Questions in Radio Transcripts
2024
Advisor(s): M. Ehrmann
2023
Journal Articles
impresso Text Reuse at Scale. An interface for the exploration of text reuse data in semantically enriched historical newspapers
Frontiers in Big Data
2023
Vol. 6 , num. Visualizing Big Culture and History Data, p. 1 – 16.DOI : 10.3389/fdata.2023.1249469
Effective annotation for the automatic vectorization of cadastral maps
Digital Scholarship In The Humanities
2023
DOI : 10.1093/llc/fqad006
Ce que les machines ont vu et que nous ne savons pas encore
Sociétés & Représentations
2023
num. 1, p. 249 – 267.DOI : 10.3917/sr.055.0249
Machine-Learning-Enhanced Procedural Modeling for 4D Historical Cities Reconstruction
Remote Sensing
2023
Vol. 15 , num. 13, p. 3352.DOI : 10.3390/rs15133352
Conference Papers
Digitization of the Inscriptions on the Monuments of Armenian Cultural Heritage in Nagorno-Karabakh Region
2023
Digital Humanities 2023. Collaboration as Opportunity. (DH2023), Graz, Austria, 10-14 July 2023.DOI : 10.5281/zenodo.8108026
The Skin of Venice: Automatic Facade Extraction from Point Clouds
Digital Humanities 2023 : Book of Abstracts
2023
ADHO Digital Humanities Conference 2023 (DH2023), Graz, Austria, July 10-14 2023.DOI : 10.5281/zenodo.8107943
Transhistorical Urban Landscape as Hypermap
34Th Acm Conference On Hypertext And Social Media, Ht 2023
2023
34th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT), Rome, ITALY, SEP 04-08, 2023.DOI : 10.1145/3603163.3609083
Yes but.. Can ChatGPT Identify Entities in Historical Documents?
2023 Acm/Ieee Joint Conference On Digital Libraries, Jcdl
2023
23rd ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), Santa Fe, NM, JUN 26-30, 2023.p. 184 – 189
DOI : 10.1109/JCDL57899.2023.00034
From Automated Bootstrapping to Collaborative Editing: A Framework for 4D City Reconstruction
Digital Humanities 2023: Book of Abstracts
2023
Digital Humanities 2023: Collaboration as Opportunity (DH2023), Graz, Austria, July 10-14, 2023.p. 310 – 313
DOI : 10.5281/zenodo.8107906
Book Chapters
From Archival Sources to Structured Historical Information: Annotating and Exploring the “Accordi dei Garzoni”
Apprenticeship, Work, Society in Early Modern Venice; Abingdon: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023.ISBN : 978-1-003197-19-5
DOI : 10.4324/9781003197195-6
Reports
Computational Approaches to Digitised Historical Newspapers (Dagstuhl Seminar 22292)
2023
p. 69.Student Projects
Where Did the News Come From? Detection of News Agency Releases in Historical Newspapers
2023
Advisor(s): M. Ehrmann; E. Boros; M. Duering; F. Kaplan
2022
Conference Papers
Page Layout Analysis of Text-heavy Historical Documents: a Comparison of Textual and Visual Approaches
Proceedings of the Computational Humanities Research Conference 2022 Antwerp, Belgium, December 12-14, 2022
2022
Third Conference on Computational Humanities Research (CHR 2022), Antwerp, Belgium, December 12-14, 2022.p. 36 – 54
DOI : 10.48550/arXiv.2212.13924
A data structure for scientific models of historical cities: extending the CityJSON format
Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Humanities
2022
6th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Humanities, Seattle, Washington, November 1, 2022.p. 20 – 23
DOI : 10.1145/3557919.3565813
Introducing the HIPE 2022 Shared Task: Named Entity Recognition and Linking in Multilingual Historical Documents
Advances in Information Retrieval
2022
44th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2022, Stavanger, Norway, April 10-14, 2022.p. 347 – 354
DOI : 10.1007/978-3-030-99739-7_44
ECCE: Entity-centric Corpus Exploration Using Contextual Implicit Networks
WWW ’22 Companion
2022
The Web Conference (WWW’22), Lyon, France, April 25-29, 2022.p. 1 – 4
DOI : 10.1145/3487553.3524237
Extended Overview of HIPE-2022: Named Entity Recognition and Linking in Multilingual Historical Documents
Proceedings of the Working Notes of CLEF 2022 – Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum
2022
13th Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2022), Bologna, Italy, 5-8 Sept 2022.DOI : 10.5281/zenodo.6979577
Overview of HIPE-2022: Named Entity Recognition and Linking in Multilingual Historical Documents
Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction. 13th International Conference of the CLEF Association, CLEF 2022, Bologna, Italy, September 5–8, 2022, Proceedings
2022
13th Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2022), Bologna, Italy, 5-8 September 2022.p. 423 – 446
DOI : 10.1007/978-3-031-13643-6_26
Books
Digitised Newspapers – A New Eldorado for Historians? Reflections on Tools, Methods and Epistemology
Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022.DOI : 10.1515/9783110729214
Theses
Opacité et transparence dans le design d’un dispositif de surveillance urbain : le cas de l’IMSI catcher
Lausanne: EPFL2022
p. 230.DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8838
Book Chapters
Digitised Historical Newspapers: A Changing Research Landscape (Introduction)
Digitised Newspapers – A New Eldorado for Historians?; Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022.ISBN : 978-3-110729-21-4
Reports
Boosting named entity recognition in domain-specific and low-resource settings
2022
p. 21.Student Projects
Automatic table detection and classification in large-scale newspaper archives
2022
Advisor(s): M. Ehrmann; S. Clematide; F. Kaplan
Datasets
HIPE-2022 Shared Task Named Entity Datasets
2022
2021
Journal Articles
Explorer la presse numérisée : le projet Impresso
Revue Historique Vaudoise
2021
Vol. 129/2021 , p. 159 – 173.Optical Character Recognition of 19th Century Classical Commentaries: the Current State of Affairs
2021
DOI : 10.48550/arXiv.2110.06817
Named Entity Recognition and Classification in Historical Documents: A Survey
ACM Computing Survey
2021
Vol. 56 , num. 2, p. 27.Aux portes du monde miroir
Revue Histoire de l’art : Humanités numériques
2021
Vol. 87 .Combining Visual and Textual Features for Semantic Segmentation of Historical Newspapers
Journal of Data Mining & Digital Humanities
2021
Vol. 2021 , num. Special Issue on HistoInformatics: Computational Approaches to History, p. 1 – 26.DOI : 10.5281/zenodo.4065271
Conference Papers
Optical Character Recognition of 19th Century Classical Commentaries: the Current State of Affairs
HIP ’21: The 6th International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing
2021
HIP ’21: The 6th International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 5-6, 2021.p. 1 – 6
DOI : 10.1145/3476887.3476911
Catch Me If You Can Designing a Disobedient Object to Protest Against GSM Surveillance
Extended Abstracts Of The 2021 Chi Conference On Human Factors In Computing Systems (Chi’21)
2021
CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, ELECTR NETWORK, May 08-13, 2021.DOI : 10.1145/3411763.3450363
Book Chapters
Les vingt premières années du capitalisme linguistique : Enjeux globaux de la médiation algorithmique des langues
Prendre soin des l’informatique et des générations; Limoges: FYP Editions, 2021.ISBN : 978-2-36405-212-3
Student Projects
Nouveau centre culturel et éducatif de La Chaux-de-Fonds
2021
Advisor(s): M. Fröhlich; A. Fröhlich; F. Pardini
Teaching Resources
Detecting Text Reuse with Passim
2021
Datasets
Datasets and Models for Historical Newspaper Article Segmentation
2021
2020
Journal Articles
A digital reconstruction of the 1630–1631 large plague outbreak in Venice
Scientific Reports
2020
Vol. 10 , num. 1, p. 17849.DOI : 10.1038/s41598-020-74775-6
The Advent of the 4D Mirror World
Urban Planning
2020
Vol. 5 , num. 2, p. 307.DOI : 10.17645/up.v5i2.3133
Rhythmanalysis of Urban Events: Empirical Elements from the Montreux Jazz Festival
Urban Planning
2020
Vol. 5 , num. 2, p. 280 – 295.DOI : 10.17645/up.v5i2.2940
The Hermeneutic Circle of Data Visualization: the Case Study of the Affinity Map
Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology
2020
Vol. 24 , num. 3, p. 357 – 375.DOI : 10.5840/techne202081126
Conference Papers
Extended Overview of CLEF HIPE 2020: Named Entity Processing on Historical Newspapers
CLEF 2020 Working Notes. Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum
2020
11th Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2020), [Online event], 22-25 September, 2020.DOI : 10.5281/zenodo.4117566
Overview of CLEF HIPE 2020: Named Entity Recognition and Linking on Historical Newspapers
Experimental IR meets multilinguality, multimodality, and interaction. 11th International Conference of the CLEF Association, CLEF 2020, Thessaloniki, Greece, September 22–25, 2020, Proceedings
2020
11th International Conference of the CLEF Association – CLEF 2020, Thessaloniki, Greece, September 22–25, 2020.p. 288 –
DOI : 10.1007/978-3-030-58219-7_21
Language Resources for Historical Newspapers: the Impresso Collection
Proceedings of the 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
2020
12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Marseille, France, May 11-16 2020.p. 958 – 968
DOI : 10.5281/zenodo.4641902
Introducing the CLEF 2020 HIPE Shared Task: Named Entity Recognition and Linking on Historical Newspapers
Advances in Information Retrieval. ECIR 2020
2020
ECIR 2020 : 42nd European Conference on Information Retrieval, Lisbon, Portugal, April 14-17, 2020.p. 524 – 532
DOI : 10.1007/978-3-030-45442-5_68
Historical Newspaper Content Mining: Revisiting the impresso Project’s Challenges in Text and Image Processing, Design and Historical Scholarship
DH2020 Book of Abstracts
2020
Digital Humanities Conference (DH), Ottawa, Canada, July 20-24, 2020.DOI : 10.5281/zenodo.4641894
Book Chapters
Building a Mirror World for Venice
The Aura in the Age of Digital Materiality : Rethinking Preservation in the Shadow of an Uncertain Future; Milan: SilvanaEditoriale, 2020.ISBN : 9788836645480
Reports
Impresso Named Entity Annotation Guidelines (CLEF-HIPE-2020)
2020
p. 29.CLEF-HIPE-2020 – Shared Task Participation Guidelines
2020
p. 19.The impresso system architecture in a nutshell
2020
p. 10.Talks
I sistemi di immagini nell’archivio digitale di Vico Magistretti
Narrare con l’Archivio. Forum internazionale, 19 novembre 2020, Milan, Italy, Novembre 19, 2020.
Swiss in motion : Analyser et visualiser les rythmes quotidiens. Une première approche à partir du dispositif Time-Machine.
Swiss Mobility Conference, Lausanne, October 29-30, 2020.
Student Projects
Neural networks for semantic segmentation of historical city maps: Cross-cultural performance and the impact of figurative diversity
2020
Datasets
CLEF-HIPE-2020 Shared Task Named Entity Datasets
2020
2019
Journal Articles
Transforming scholarship in the archives through handwritten text recognition Transkribus as a case study
Journal Of Documentation
2019
Vol. 75 , num. 5, p. 954 – 976.DOI : 10.1108/JD-07-2018-0114
Self-Recognition in Data Visualization: How Individuals See Themselves in Visual Representations
EspacesTemps.net
2019
DOI : 10.26151/espacestemps.net-wztp-cc46
Citation Mining of Humanities Journals: The Progress to Date and the Challenges Ahead
Journal of European Periodical Studies
2019
Vol. 4 , num. 1, p. 36 – 53.DOI : 10.21825/jeps.v4i1.10120
Linked Books: un indice citazionale per la storia di Venezia
DigItalia
2019
Vol. 14 , num. 1, p. 132 – 146.Index-Driven Digitization and Indexation of Historical Archives
Frontiers in Digital Humanities
2019
Vol. 6 , num. 1-16, p. 1 – 16.DOI : 10.3389/fdigh.2019.00004
The Daily Design of the Quantified Self
Swiss Informatics Digital Magazine (SIDM)
2019
DOI : 10.5281/zenodo.3463586
Frederic Kaplan Isabella di Lenardo
Apollo-The International Art Magazine
2019
Vol. 189 , num. 671, p. 21 – 21.Conference Papers
Historical Newspaper User Interfaces: A Review
[Proceedings of the 85th IFLA General Conference and Assembly]
2019
85th IFLA General Conference and Assembly, Athens, Greece, 24-30 August 2019.p. 1 – 24
DOI : 10.5281/zenodo.3404155
A deep learning approach to Cadastral Computing
2019
Digital Humanities Conference, Utrecht, Netherlands, July 8-12, 2019.The Past, Present and Future of Digital Scholarship with Newspaper Collections
DH 2019 Book of Abstracts
2019
DIgital Humanities Conference, Utrecht, July 2019.Repopulating Paris: massive extraction of 4 Million addresses from city directories between 1839 and 1922
Abstracts and Posters from the Digital Humanities 2019 conference
2019
Digital Humanities Conference 2019 (DH2019), Utrecht , the Netherlands, July 9-12, 2019.DOI : 10.34894/MNF5VQ
Book Chapters
Experiments in digital publishing: creating a digital compendium
Structures of Epic Poetry; Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2019.ISBN : 9783110492590
DOI : 10.1515/9783110492590-074
Talks
Spherical Network Visualizations
Challenges in Design: Imagination, Aesthetics, and New Technology, Porto, Portugal, 2019-06-26.
Beyond Keyword Search: Semantic Indexing and Exploration of Large Collections of Historical Newspapers
Digital Humanitites in the Nordic Countries, Copenhagen, Denmark, March 2019.
Traduire les données en images
Journée d’étude : Imagination, imaginaire et images des (big) data, Université de Lille, France, 2019-01-24.
Traduire les données en images
Séminaire d’écritures numériques et éditorialisation, CNAM Paris et Université de Montreal, January 17th 2019.
Translating Data into Images
Séminaire du médialab, Sciences Po, Paris, France, January 15th 2019.
Student Projects
Historical newspaper semantic segmentation using visual and textual features
2019
Advisor(s): M. Ehrmann; S. Ares Oliveira; S. Clematide
Teaching Resources
Named Entity Processing for Historical Texts
2019
Datasets
Survey of digitized newspaper interfaces (dataset and notebooks)
2019