Digital Humanities Laboratory

A mosaic of visuals originating from various research projects at the DHLAB.

The Digital Humanities Laboratory was founded by Professor Frédéric Kaplan in 2012. The lab develops new computational approaches to manage large digital cultural objects (such as large corpora of texts, images, and complex documents), and to execute high-resolution digitization of artifacts, buildings, and cities. It also aims to develop new understandings of digital cultures, such as visual languages, video culture, and linguistic mediations.

Most Recent Publications

2024

Exploring cartographic genealogies through deformation analysis: case studies on ancient maps and synthetic data

B. Vaienti; I. Di Lenardo; F. Kaplan 

Cartography and Geographic Information Science. 2024.  p. 1 – 21. DOI : 10.1080/15230406.2024.2424891.

Cartographic Stemmatology: Segmenting Local Deformation Similarities in Historical Maps of Jerusalem

B. Vaienti; I. Di Lenardo; F. Kaplan 

2024. 18th Conference Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage, Bologna, Italy, 2024-10-23 – 2024-10-25.

Deformative Signatures: Studying Cartographic Deformations as a Source of Knowledge in 19th Century Jerusalem

B. Vaienti 

2024. 30th International Conference on the History of Cartography, Lyon, France, 2024-07-01 – 2024-07-05.

Towards Chapterisation of Podcasts Detection of Host and Structuring Questions in Radio Transcripts

M. Piguet 

2024.

Post-correction of Historical Text Transcripts with Large Language Models: An Exploratory Study

E. Boros; M. Ehrmann; Matteo Romanello; S. Najem-Meyer; F. Kaplan 

2024. The 8th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature, St Julian’s, Malta, March 22, 2024. p. 133 – 159.

MapPool -Bubbling up an extremely large corpus of maps for AI

R. Schnürer 

2024. 2024 ICA Workshop on AI, Geovisualization, and Analytical Reasoning, Warsaw, Poland, 2024-09-07.

Digital Guardianship: Innovative Strategies in Preserving Armenian’s Epigraphic Legacy

H. Tamrazyan; Hovhannisyan Gayane 

Heritage. 2024. Vol. 7, num. 5. DOI : 10.3390/heritage7050109.

Tracing Cartographic Errors in the Western Representation of 19th Century Jerusalem

B. Vaienti; I. Di Lenardo; F. Kaplan 

2024. Digital Humanities 2024: Reinvention & Responsibility, Arlington, Virginia, USA, 2024-08-06 – 2024-08-09.

2023

impresso Text Reuse at Scale. An interface for the exploration of text reuse data in semantically enriched historical newspapers

M. Düring; M. Romanello; M. Ehrmann; K. Beelen; D. Guido et al. 

Frontiers in Big Data. 2023. Vol. 6, num. Visualizing Big Culture and History Data, p. 1 – 16. DOI : 10.3389/fdata.2023.1249469.

Where Did the News Come From? Detection of News Agency Releases in Historical Newspapers

L. Marxen 

2023.

Digitization of the Inscriptions on the Monuments of Armenian Cultural Heritage in Nagorno-Karabakh Region

H. Tamrazyan 

2023. Digital Humanities 2023. Collaboration as Opportunity. (DH2023), Graz, Austria, 10-14 July 2023. DOI : 10.5281/zenodo.8108026.

The Skin of Venice: Automatic Facade Extraction from Point Clouds

P. Guhennec; I. Di Lenardo 

2023. ADHO Digital Humanities Conference 2023 (DH2023), Graz, Austria, July 10-14 2023. DOI : 10.5281/zenodo.8107943.

Effective annotation for the automatic vectorization of cadastral maps

R. Petitpierre; P. Guhennec 

Digital Scholarship In The Humanities. 2023. DOI : 10.1093/llc/fqad006.

From Archival Sources to Structured Historical Information: Annotating and Exploring the “Accordi dei Garzoni”

M. Ehrmann; O. Topalov; F. Kaplan 

Apprenticeship, Work, Society in Early Modern Venice; Abingdon: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023.

Computational Approaches to Digitised Historical Newspapers (Dagstuhl Seminar 22292)

M. Ehrmann; M. Düring; C. Neudecker; A. Doucet 

2023

Yes but.. Can ChatGPT Identify Entities in Historical Documents?

C-E. Gonzalez-Gallardo; E. Boros; N. Girdhar; A. Hamdi; J. G. Moreno et al. 

2023. 23rd ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), Santa Fe, NM, JUN 26-30, 2023. p. 184 – 189. DOI : 10.1109/JCDL57899.2023.00034.

Transhistorical Urban Landscape as Hypermap

D. N. del Castillo; I. Neri; P. Guhennec; J. A. Sanchez-Vaquerizo; L. Schaerf et al. 

2023. 34th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT), Rome, ITALY, SEP 04-08, 2023. DOI : 10.1145/3603163.3609083.

Machine-Learning-Enhanced Procedural Modeling for 4D Historical Cities Reconstruction

B. Vaienti; R. G. Petitpierre; I. Di Lenardo; F. Kaplan 

Remote Sensing. 2023. Vol. 15, num. 13, p. 3352. DOI : 10.3390/rs15133352.

Ce que les machines ont vu et que nous ne savons pas encore

I. Di Lenardo; F. Kaplan 

Sociétés & Représentations. 2023. num. 1, p. 249 – 267. DOI : 10.3917/sr.055.0249.

From Automated Bootstrapping to Collaborative Editing: A Framework for 4D City Reconstruction

B. Vaienti; P. Guhennec; D. Dupertuis; R. Petitpierre 

2023. Digital Humanities 2023: Collaboration as Opportunity (DH2023), Graz, Austria, July 10-14, 2023. p. 310 – 313. DOI : 10.5281/zenodo.8107906.