Papers by Filip Dobranić
A Lightweight Approach to a Giga-Corpus of Historical Periodicals: The Story of a Slovenian Historical Newspaper Collection (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | a curated corpus of Slovenian historical newspapers is a complex undertaking requiring multiple steps to prepare . a shoestring budget is required to produce a corpus that is billion-words in size . |
| Approach: | They propose a lightweight approach to producing high-quality corpora using OCR . they use noisy OCR-ed data from the National and University Library of Slovenia . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method produces a billion-word giga-corpus of Slovenian historical newspapers from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries on a shoestring budget. |