medieval-latin

HTRomance, Medieval Latin corpus of ground-truth for Handwritten Text Recognition and Layout Segmentation ===================== characters badge regions badge lines badge files badge

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Introduction

This ground-truth dataset has been carefully built around the idea of having generic data for building a strong and reliable model for HTR of Latin manuscripts. Each manuscript should have around 10 columns (5 bi-columns pages or 10 pages of single column).

Data follow the Segmonto guidelines.

[!NOTE] The repository contains two XML files per image. The ones suffixed with .chocomufin.xml are normalized in order to be compliant with other datasets following the same guidelines. The others are more specific to this repository. We recommend using the normalized documents.

Credits

Transcription guidelines

The transcription guidelines are described in a paper available on HAL and published in the Journal for Open Humanities Data. The paper provides specific details about the selection process, the transcription methods and choices, as well as details about the output (mainly the Generic CREMMA Model for Medieval Manuscripts (Latin and Old French) for Kraken)

Data

ALTO and images can be found in the directory called data/. Each subfolder of data/ corresponds to a single manuscript, identified by its shelfmark.

Shelfmark Links Range Type Century Color Pages Main Zones Lines Characters Genre Content
BnF latin 9768 📁 B 1r-3r prose 10 ✗ 6 24 660 19042 histoire Historiarum Libri Quatuor, Nithard
BnF latin 14354 📁 68b-69ra prose 13 ✗ 2 8 546 20982   Collatio Alexandri et Dindimi
BnF latin 16657 📁 82v-84r prose 13 ✓ 8 8 400 16654 Mathématiques Almagesti Minor
BnF latin 10996 📁 1r-3r prose 13 ✗ 6 10 218 9541   Chartularium Abbatiæ Beatæ Mariæ
Latin 5657 📁 B 42v,36v-37r,46v-47r prose 13 ✗ 6 26 304 14507 Cartulaire Charte de Renaud Musavène (f42v); Don d’une maison par Mathieu II (f36v); Philippe de Beaumont & Don de la mairie de Champagne par Jehan (f37r); Don d’Hémery Aladent (fin), (?), Bouchard VI de Montmorency (46v); Le Culte de Saint Guillaume établi à Pontoise, Concession par l’abbé de S. Denis du fief de Teleuse (f47r);
BnF Latin 16204 📁 333-337 prose 13 ✓ 10 20 924 31721 prose (astrologie) Albumasar, Tractatus revolutione annorum mundi (De Experimentis); Albumasar, Flores
BnF NAL 775 📁 91r-93r prose 14 ✓ 10 20 982 29438 prose Legenda aurea, De sancto Petro martyre, De sancto Philippo apostolo, De sancto Iacobo apostolo
BnF Latin 7720 📁 100v-102v prose 14 ✓ 10 20 1160 27423 prose Quintilien, Inst. 11.2.44 seq
BnF Latin 6337 📁 1r-5v prose 16 ✓ 6 6 352 15558 prose Tusculanarum quaestionum libri quinque

Metrics

Total number of pages

64

Regions

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Funding

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

Cite the project

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/

@misc{Clerice_HTRomance,
author = {Clérice, Thibault and Chagué, Alix and Gille-Levenson, Matthias and Brisville-Fertin, Olivier and Pinche, Ariane and Camps, Jean-Baptiste and Fischer, Franz and Boschetti, Federico and Guadagnini, Elisa  and Guilhem Couffignal, Gilles and Canteaut, Olivier and Romary, Laurent and Reboul, Marianne and Perreaux, Nicolas and Poibeau, Thierry and Smith, Marc and Norindr, Jade and Glaise, Anthony and Navas Farré, Marina and Bordier, Julie and Leroy, Noé and Alba, Rachele and Rubin, Giorgia},
title = ,
url = {https://htromance-project.github.io/}
}

Infrastructure

This project relied on the CREMMA infrastructure.