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The HTRomance project

The HTRomance project is anchored to the field of handwriting recognition (HTR). In particular, it proposes to evaluate and improve the capabilities of this technology when applied to literary manuscripts and public and private archives, in Latin and Romance languages, from the 11th to the 19th century, kept at the French National Library (BnF).

The main objective of the project is the production of training data and transcription models resistant to changes in handwriting and language. It also intends to produce language models applicable to documents in ancient languages or to ancient language states. The development of training corpora will be accompanied and consolidated by the development and implementation of a novel process for evaluating the readability of output texts and the costs of producing new training data for HTR. HTRomance is complementary to editing or data mining projects: the models produced are likely to be used to obtain the textual data needed for editing or text mining.

Members

• Thibault Clérice, PI
• Alix Chagué, PI
• Matthias Gille-Levenson, Language coordinator
• Olivier Brisville-Fertin, Language coordinator
• Ariane Pinche, Language coordinator
• Jean-Baptiste Camps, Language coordinator
• Franz Fischer, Language coordinator
• Federico Boschetti, Language coordinator
• Elisa Guadagnini
• Gilles Guilhem Couffignal, Language coordinator
• Olivier Canteaut
• Laurent Romary
• Marianne Reboul
• Nicolas Perreaux
• Thierry Poibeau
• Marc Smith

Annotators

• Jade Norindr (Modern)
• Anthony Glaise (Latin)
• Marina Navas Farré (Occitan)
• Julie Bordier (Spanish)
• Noé Leroy (Medieval French)
• Rachele Alba (Italian)
• Giorgia Rubin (Italian)

Citation

Clérice, T., Chagué, A., Gille-Levenson, M., Brisville-Fertin, O., Pinche, A., Camps, J., Fischer, F., Boschetti, F., Guadagnini, E., Guilhem Couffignal, G., Canteaut, O., Romary, L., Reboul, M., Perreaux, N., Poibeau, T., Smith, M., Norindr, J., Glaise, A., Navas Farré, M., Bordier, J., Leroy, N., Alba, R., & Rubin, G. HTRomance [Data set]. https://htromance-project.github.io/

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Funding

This project was funded by the Bibliothèque nationale de France through the 2022 project calls from Datalab for 2023.

Infrastructure

This project relied on the CREMMA infrastructure.

View the datasets

➡️ Medieval Latin
➡️ Medieval Italian
➡️ Medieval French
➡️ Medieval Occitan
➡️ Middle Ages in Spain
➡️ Modern Roman Languages