Scalable handwritten text recognition system for lexicographic sources of under-resourced languages and alphabets

no code implementations • 28 Mar 2023 • Jan Idziak, Artjoms Šeļa, Michał Woźniak, Albert Leśniak, Joanna Byszuk, Maciej Eder

Our study provides a working solution that reads the cards, and links their lemmas to a searchable list of dictionary entries, for a large historical dictionary entitled the Dictionary of the 17th- and 18th-century Polish, which comprizes 2. 8 million index cards.

Handwritten Text Recognition HTR +1

From stage to page: language independent bootstrap measures of distinctiveness in fictional speech

no code implementations • 13 Jan 2023 • Artjoms Šeļa, Ben Nagy, Joanna Byszuk, Laura Hernández-Lorenzo, Botond Szemes, Maciej Eder

Stylometry is mostly applied to authorial style.

Detecting Direct Speech in Multilingual Collection of 19th-century Novels

no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Joanna Byszuk, Micha{\l} Wo{\'z}niak, Mike Kestemont, Albert Le{\'s}niak, Wojciech {\L}ukasik, Artjoms {\v{S}}e{\c{l}}a, Maciej Eder

Fictional prose can be broadly divided into narrative and discursive forms with direct speech being central to any discourse representation (alongside indirect reported speech and free indirect discourse).

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