Hierarchical Text Segmentation for Medieval Manuscripts

1 code implementation • COLING 2020 • Amir Hazem, Beatrice Daille, Dominique Stutzmann, Christopher Kermorvant, Louis Chevalier

In this paper, we address the segmentation of books of hours, Latin devotional manuscripts of the late Middle Ages, that exhibit challenging issues: a complex hierarchical entangled structure, variable content, noisy transcriptions with no sentence markers, and strong correlations between sections for which topical information is no longer sufficient to draw segmentation boundaries.

Hierarchical Text Segmentation Segmentation +2