Historical Ink: 19th Century Latin American Spanish Newspaper Corpus with LLM OCR Correction
Year: 2024
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: This paper presents two significant contributions: First, it introduces a novel dataset of 19thcentury Latin American newspaper texts, addressing a critical gap in specialized corpora for historical and linguistic analysis in this region.Second, it develops a flexible framework that utilizes a Large Language Model for OCR error correction and linguistic surface form detection in digitized corpora.This semi-automated framework is adaptable to various contexts and datasets and is applied to the newly created dataset.
Institution: Universidad de Los Andes
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4404781013