Publications

Recent publications of the lab are listed below, for a full list please refer to this search on infoscience.

2024

Cartographic Stemmatology: Segmenting Local Deformation Similarities in Historical Maps of Jerusalem

B. Vaienti; I. Di Lenardo; F. Kaplan 

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.

Rhythmanalysis of Switzerland, Rethinking territorial typologies

G. Drevon; Y. Dubois; P. Rérat; V. Kaufmann; O. Klein et al. 

disP – The Planning Review

2024

Vol. 60 , num. 1, p. 21 – 36.

DOI : 10.1080/02513625.2024.2376447

Deformative Signatures: Studying Cartographic Deformations as a Source of Knowledge in 19th Century Jerusalem

B. Vaienti 

2024

30th International Conference on the History of Cartography, Lyon, France, 2024-07-01 – 2024-07-05.

Towards Chapterisation of Podcasts Detection of Host and Structuring Questions in Radio Transcripts

M. Piguet 

2024

Advisor(s): M. Ehrmann

Mapping Bibliotheca Hertziana

H. L. Casey 

2024

Advisor(s): F. Kaplan; D. Rodighiero; A. Adamou

A fragment-based approach for computing the long-term visual evolution of historical maps

R. Petitpierre; J. H. Uhl; I. Di Lenardo; F. Kaplan 

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications

2024

Vol. 11 , num. 1, p. 363.

DOI : 10.1057/s41599-024-02840-w

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

E. Boros; M. Ehrmann; Matteo Romanello; S. Najem-Meyer; F. Kaplan 

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

Digital Guardianship: Innovative Strategies in Preserving Armenian’s Epigraphic Legacy

H. Tamrazyan; Hovhannisyan Gayane 

Heritage

2024

Vol. 7 , num. 5.

DOI : 10.3390/heritage7050109

MapPool -Bubbling up an extremely large corpus of maps for AI

R. Schnürer 

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

B. Vaienti; I. Di Lenardo; F. Kaplan 

Digital Humanities 2024: book of abstracts

2024

Digital Humanities 2024: Reinvention & Responsibility, Arlington, Virginia, USA, 2024-08-06 – 2024-08-09.

2023

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

M. Düring; M. Romanello; M. Ehrmann; K. Beelen; D. Guido et al. 

Frontiers in Big Data

2023

Vol. 6 , num. Visualizing Big Culture and History Data, p. 1 – 16.

DOI : 10.3389/fdata.2023.1249469

Where Did the News Come From? Detection of News Agency Releases in Historical Newspapers

L. Marxen 

2023

Advisor(s): M. Ehrmann; E. Boros; M. Duering; F. Kaplan

Digitization of the Inscriptions on the Monuments of Armenian Cultural Heritage in Nagorno-Karabakh Region

H. Tamrazyan 

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

P. Guhennec; I. Di Lenardo 

Digital Humanities 2023 : Book of Abstracts

2023

ADHO Digital Humanities Conference 2023 (DH2023), Graz, Austria, July 10-14 2023.

DOI : 10.5281/zenodo.8107943

Effective annotation for the automatic vectorization of cadastral maps

R. Petitpierre; P. Guhennec 

Digital Scholarship In The Humanities

2023

DOI : 10.1093/llc/fqad006

From Archival Sources to Structured Historical Information: Annotating and Exploring the “Accordi dei Garzoni”

M. Ehrmann; O. Topalov; F. Kaplan 

Apprenticeship, Work, Society in Early Modern Venice; Abingdon: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023.

ISBN : 978-1-003197-19-5

DOI : 10.4324/9781003197195-6

Computational Approaches to Digitised Historical Newspapers (Dagstuhl Seminar 22292)

M. Ehrmann; M. Düring; C. Neudecker; A. Doucet 

2023

p. 69.

Yes but.. Can ChatGPT Identify Entities in Historical Documents?

C-E. Gonzalez-Gallardo; E. Boros; N. Girdhar; A. Hamdi; J. G. Moreno et al. 

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

Transhistorical Urban Landscape as Hypermap

D. N. del Castillo; I. Neri; P. Guhennec; J. A. Sanchez-Vaquerizo; L. Schaerf et al. 

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

Machine-Learning-Enhanced Procedural Modeling for 4D Historical Cities Reconstruction

B. Vaienti; R. G. Petitpierre; I. Di Lenardo; F. Kaplan 

Remote Sensing

2023

Vol. 15 , num. 13, p. 3352.

DOI : 10.3390/rs15133352

Ce que les machines ont vu et que nous ne savons pas encore

I. Di Lenardo; F. Kaplan 

Sociétés & Représentations

2023

num. 1, p. 249 – 267.

DOI : 10.3917/sr.055.0249

From Automated Bootstrapping to Collaborative Editing: A Framework for 4D City Reconstruction

B. Vaienti; P. Guhennec; D. Dupertuis; R. Petitpierre 

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

2022

Digitised Newspapers – A New Eldorado for Historians? Reflections on Tools, Methods and Epistemology

 

Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022.

DOI : 10.1515/9783110729214

Digitised Historical Newspapers: A Changing Research Landscape (Introduction)

M. Ehrmann; E. Bunout; F. Clavert 

Digitised Newspapers – A New Eldorado for Historians?; Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022.

ISBN : 978-3-110729-21-4

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

S. Najem-Meyer; M. Romanello 

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

B. Vaienti; P. Guhennec; I. di Lenardo 

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

Searching for visual patterns in a children’s drawings collection

R. Annapureddy 

2022

Advisor(s): F. Kaplan; J. R. Fageot

Semi-supervised Clustering of Visual Signatures of Artworks

L. Schaerf 

2022

Advisor(s): F. Kaplan; P. Guhennec

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

M. Ehrmann; M. Romanello; A. Doucet; S. Clematide 

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

Automatic table detection and classification in large-scale newspaper archives

A. Vernet 

2022

Advisor(s): M. Ehrmann; S. Clematide; F. Kaplan

Boosting named entity recognition in domain-specific and low-resource settings

S. Najem-Meyer 

2022

p. 21.

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

M. Ehrmann; M. Romanello; S. Najem-Meyer; A. Doucet; S. Clematide 

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

ECCE: Entity-centric Corpus Exploration Using Contextual Implicit Networks

J. Schelb; M. Ehrmann; M. Romanello; A. O. Spitz 

WWW ’22 Companion

2022

The Web Conference (WWW’22), Lyon, France, April 25-29, 2022.

p. 1 – 4

DOI : 10.1145/3487553.3524237

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

M. Ehrmann; M. Romanello; S. Najem-Meyer; A. Doucet; S. Clematide 

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

HIPE-2022 Shared Task Named Entity Datasets

M. Ehrmann; M. Romanello; A. Doucet; S. Clematide 

2022

Conditional Synthetic Financial Time Series with Generative Adversarial Networks

A. Rusnak 

2022

Advisor(s): F. Kaplan; S. Daul

Opacité et transparence dans le design d’un dispositif de surveillance urbain : le cas de l’IMSI catcher

F. M. M. Goguey / Director(s) : F. Kaplan; N. Nova 

Lausanne: EPFL

2022

p. 230.

DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8838

2021

Explorer la presse numérisée : le projet Impresso

M. Ehrmann 

Revue Historique Vaudoise

2021

Vol. 129/2021 , p. 159 – 173.

Automatic Content Curation of Visual Heritage

D. Ribes Lemay; V. Bernasconi; A. Andrade; L. Défayes; M. Salzmann et al. 

World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

2021

ICDH 2021 : International Conference on Digital Heritage, London, United Kingdom, November 18-19, 2021.

Generic Semantic Segmentation of Historical Maps

R. G. Petitpierre; F. Kaplan; I. Di Lenardo 

CEUR Workshop Proceedings

2021

CHR 2021: Computational Humanities Research Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, November 17-19, 2021.

p. 228 – 248

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

M. Romanello; S. Najem-Meyer; B. Robertson 

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

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

S. Najem-Meyer; B. Robertson; M. Romanello 

2021

DOI : 10.48550/arXiv.2110.06817

Named Entity Recognition and Classification in Historical Documents: A Survey

M. Ehrmann; A. Hamdi; E. Linhares Pontes; M. Romanello; A. Doucet 

ACM Computing Survey

2021

Vol. 56 , num. 2, p. 27.

Aux portes du monde miroir

I. Di Lenardo; F. Kaplan 

Revue Histoire de l’art : Humanités numériques

2021

Vol. 87 .

Detecting Text Reuse with Passim

M. Romanello; S. Hengchen 

2021

Une approche computationnelle du cadastre napoléonien de Venise

I. Di Lenardo; R. Barman; F. Pardini; F. Kaplan 

Humanités numériques

2021

Vol. 3/2021 , num. 3.

DOI : 10.4000/revuehn.1786

Catch Me If You Can Designing a Disobedient Object to Protest Against GSM Surveillance

F. Goguey 

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

Nouveau centre culturel et éducatif de La Chaux-de-Fonds

T. Cristea 

2021

Advisor(s): M. Fröhlich; A. Fröhlich; F. Pardini

Datasets and Models for Historical Newspaper Article Segmentation

R. Barman; M. Ehrmann; S. Clematide; S. Ares Oliveira 

2021

Combining Visual and Textual Features for Semantic Segmentation of Historical Newspapers

R. Barman; M. Ehrmann; S. Clematide; S. Ares Oliveira; F. Kaplan 

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

Method and system for generating a three-dimensional model based on spherical photogrammetry

F. Kaplan; N. Hamel; A. B. Descombes; P-A. Mudry; C. Papon 

Patent number(s) :

  • EP4165597 (A1)
  • WO2021255495 (A1)

2021

Les vingt premières années du capitalisme linguistique : Enjeux globaux de la médiation algorithmique des langues

F. Kaplan 

Prendre soin des l’informatique et des générations; Limoges: FYP Editions, 2021.

ISBN : 978-2-36405-212-3

2020

I sistemi di immagini nell’archivio digitale di Vico Magistretti

F. Kaplan; I. di Lenardo 

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.

Y. Dubois; N. Hamel; G. Drevon; P. Rérat; V. Kaufmann et al. 

Swiss Mobility Conference, Lausanne, October 29-30, 2020.

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

M. Ehrmann; M. Romanello; A. Flückiger; S. Clematide 

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

A digital reconstruction of the 1630–1631 large plague outbreak in Venice

G. Lazzari; G. Colavizza; F. Bortoluzzi; D. Drago; A. Erboso et al. 

Scientific Reports

2020

Vol. 10 , num. 1, p. 17849.

DOI : 10.1038/s41598-020-74775-6

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

M. Ehrmann; M. Romanello; A. Flückiger; S. Clematide 

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

Rhythmanalysis of Urban Events: Empirical Elements from the Montreux Jazz Festival

G. Drevon; L. Pattaroni; L. Delley; F. Jacot-Descombes; N. Hamel 

Urban Planning

2020

Vol. 5 , num. 2, p. 280 – 295.

DOI : 10.17645/up.v5i2.2940

The Advent of the 4D Mirror World

F. Kaplan; I. di Lenardo 

Urban Planning

2020

Vol. 5 , num. 2, p. 307.

DOI : 10.17645/up.v5i2.3133

Language Resources for Historical Newspapers: the Impresso Collection

M. Ehrmann; M. Romanello; S. Clematide; P. B. Ströbel; R. Barman 

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

M. Ehrmann; M. Romanello; S. Bircher; S. Clematide 

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

CLEF-HIPE-2020 – Shared Task Participation Guidelines

M. Ehrmann; M. Romanello; S. Clematide; A. Flückiger 

2020

p. 19.

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

M. Ehrmann; C. Watter; M. Romanello; C. Simon; A. Flückiger 

2020

p. 29.

The impresso system architecture in a nutshell

M. Romanello; M. Ehrmann; S. Clematide; D. Guido 

2020

p. 10.

CLEF-HIPE-2020 Shared Task Named Entity Datasets

M. Ehrmann; M. Romanello; S. Clematide; A. Flückiger 

2020

The Hermeneutic Circle of Data Visualization: the Case Study of the Affinity Map

D. Rodighiero; A. Romele 

Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology

2020

Vol. 24 , num. 3, p. 357 – 375.

DOI : 10.5840/techne202081126

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

M. Ehrmann; E. Bunout; S. Clematide; M. Düring; A. Fickers et al. 

DH2020 Book of Abstracts

2020

Digital Humanities Conference (DH), Ottawa, Canada, July 20-24, 2020.

DOI : 10.5281/zenodo.4641894

Building a Mirror World for Venice

F. Kaplan; I. di Lenardo 

The Aura in the Age of Digital Materiality : Rethinking Preservation in the Shadow of an Uncertain Future; Milan: SilvanaEditoriale, 2020.

ISBN : 9788836645480

Neural networks for semantic segmentation of historical city maps: Cross-cultural performance and the impact of figurative diversity

R. G. Petitpierre 

2020

Advisor(s): R. Barman; N. Hamel; F. Kaplan

2019

Experiments in digital publishing: creating a digital compendium

M. Romanello 

Structures of Epic Poetry; Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2019.

ISBN : 9783110492590

DOI : 10.1515/9783110492590-074

Transforming scholarship in the archives through handwritten text recognition Transkribus as a case study

G. Muehlberger; L. Seaward; M. Terras; S. Ares Oliveira; V. Bosch et al. 

Journal Of Documentation

2019

Vol. 75 , num. 5, p. 954 – 976.

DOI : 10.1108/JD-07-2018-0114

Historical Newspaper User Interfaces: A Review

M. Ehrmann; E. Bunout; M. Düring 

[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

Self-Recognition in Data Visualization: How Individuals See Themselves in Visual Representations

D. Rodighiero; L. Cellard 

EspacesTemps.net

2019

DOI : 10.26151/espacestemps.net-wztp-cc46

Named Entity Processing for Historical Texts

M. Ehrmann; M. Romanello; S. Clematide 

2019

A deep learning approach to Cadastral Computing

S. Ares Oliveira; I. di Lenardo; B. Tourenc; F. Kaplan 

2019

Digital Humanities Conference, Utrecht, Netherlands, July 8-12, 2019.

The Past, Present and Future of Digital Scholarship with Newspaper Collections

M. Ridge; G. Colavizza; L. Brake; M. Ehrmann; J-P. Moreux et al. 

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

I. di Lenardo; R. Barman; A. B. Descombes; F. Kaplan 

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

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

G. Colavizza; M. Romanello 

Journal of European Periodical Studies

2019

Vol. 4 , num. 1, p. 36 – 53.

DOI : 10.21825/jeps.v4i1.10120

Spherical Network Visualizations

D. Rodighiero 

Challenges in Design: Imagination, Aesthetics, and New Technology, Porto, Portugal, 2019-06-26.

Historical newspaper semantic segmentation using visual and textual features

R. Barman 

2019

Advisor(s): M. Ehrmann; S. Ares Oliveira; S. Clematide