Historical documents are mostly accessible to scholars specialized in the period in which the document originated. In order to increase their accessibility to a broader audience and help in the preservation of the cultural heritage, we propose a method to modernized these documents. This method is based in statistical machine translation, and aims at translating historical documents into a mode...

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In this talk, the key components of a multifunctional historical document research system are discussed. An ongoing project which aims at creating a representative corpus of documents that reflect the impact of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche in the period 1865-1945 forms the case study for the research system. The realisation of the system includes several working fields: the collec...

Abstract. Preserving historical archival heritage involves not only physical measures to safeguard these valuable texts but also providing for their digital preservation. However, merely digitising manuscripts and codexes is enough. A further step needed: the digitalisation of content, i.e. verbatim transcription scanned texts. This process enables accurate preservation textual making it easier...

We report applications of language technologies to analyzing historical documents in the Database for the Study of Modern Chinese Thoughts and Literature (DSMCTL). We studied two historical issues with the reported techniques: the conceptualization of “華人” and the attempt to institute constitutional monarchy in the late Qing dynasty. We also discuss research challenges for supporting sophistica...

This paper describes the comparison of selected distance measures in their applicability for supporting retrieval of historical spelling variants (hsv). The interdisciplinary project Rule-based search in text databases with nonstandard orthography develops a fuzzy fulltext search engine for historical text documents. This engine should provide easier text access for experts as well as intereste...

the historical documents are the important traces of the history. Historical documents carry the information about the tradition, religion, science, literature, war strategies of the ancient times, which are very useful to understand the life and culture of the ancient civilizations. These historical documents are usually recovered from the archaeological findings. Historical documents are usua...