Publications

Transfer Learning for Historical Corpora: An Assessment on Post-OCR Correction and Named Entity Recognition

Transfer learning in Natural Language Processing, mainly in the form of pre-trained language models, …
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A Digital Reconstruction of a Large Plague Outbreak During 1630-1631

The plague, an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, is widely considered to …
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Experts and authorities receive disproportionate attention on Twitter during the COVID-19 crisis

Timely access to accurate information is crucial during the COVID-19 pandemic. Prompted by key …
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COVID-19 Research in Wikipedia

Wikipedia is one of the main sources of free knowledge on the Web. During the first few months of …
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Quantifying Engagement with Citations on Wikipedia

Wikipedia is one of the most visited sites on the Web and a common source of information for many …
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A Rating System for Art Markets on the Blockchain

Establishing the market value of art is a known challenge. A traditional distinction between primary …
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The Citation Advantage of Linking Publications to Research Data

Efforts to make research results open and reproducible are increasingly reflected by journal …
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Assessing the Impact of OCR Quality on Downstream NLP Tasks

A growing volume of heritage data is being digitized and made available as text via optical …
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Preliminary Results on Mapping Digital Humanities Research

Maps of research could provide key insights in the current and future development of the digital …
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Understanding the History of the Humanities from a Bibliometric Perspective: Expansion, Conjunctures, and Traditions in the Last Decades of Venetian Historiography (1950–2013)

Historiography is undergoing incessant expansion in the number of publications and active scholars, …
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