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

2025

LLM-Powered Agents for Navigating Venice’s Historical Cadastre

T. Karch; J. Saydaliev; I. di Lenardo; F. Kaplan 

2025

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Recognizing and Sequencing Multi-word Texts in Maps Using an Attentive Pointer

M. Zou; T. Dai; R. Petitpierre; B. Vaienti; F. Kaplan et al. 

2025

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Cultural Heritage-Based Game Design A Case Study of The Hill

J. Tang 

2025.

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Segmentation and Clustering of Local Planimetric Distortion Patterns in Historical Maps of Jerusalem

B. Vaienti; I. di Lenardo; F. Kaplan 

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 2025. Vol. 14, num. 3. DOI : 10.3390/ijgi14030132.

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Paris and Jerusalem Maps Text Dataset

T. Dai; K. T. Johnson; R. G. Petitpierre; B. Vaienti; I. di Lenardo 

2025.

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Reconstructing Saint Mark’s Square in Venice: A 4D Model with Point Cloud Integration for Analyzing Historiographical Hypotheses

I. di Lenardo; B. Vaienti; P. Guhennec; Y. Ubelmann; I. Bianchi et al. 

Heritage. 2025. Vol. 8, num. 2. DOI : 10.3390/heritage8020075.

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Exploring Large Vision-Language Models for Historical Newspaper Segmentation

D. C. Papadopoulos 

2025.

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Investigating OCR-Sensitive Neurons to Improve Entity Recognition in Historical Documents

E. Boros; M. Ehrmann 

2025. 26th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, Bandar Sunway, Malaysia, 2024-12-04 – 2024-12-06. p. 54 – 66. DOI : 10.1007/978-981-96-0865-2_5.

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Document processing in data-scarce, domain-specific environments: The case of multilingual classical commentaries

S. Najem-Meyer / F. Kaplan; M. Romanello (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2025. 

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The Skin of Venice: A Computational Approach to the City’s Urban Structure

P. Guhennec / F. Kaplan; I. Di Lenardo (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2025. 

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Data Visualization Dashboard For Large-Scale Data Processing Monitoring And Quality Control

E. G. J. E. Garandel 

2025.

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2024

A CORPUS-BASED APPROACH TO IDENTIFYING TOP-LEVEL TERMS FOR DEVELOPING A SKOS VOCABULARY FOR UKRAINIAN EPIGRAPHY

H. Tamrazyan 

Слобожанський науковий вісник. Серія: Філологія. 2024. num. 7, p. 58 – 65. DOI : https://doi.org/10.32782/philspu/2024.7.9.

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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.

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Macroeconomic Conditioned Synthetic Financial Markets

A. M. Rusnak; S. Daul 

2024. 5th ACM International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Finance, Brookyln, New York, USA, 2024-11-14 – 2024-11-27. p. 150 – 158. DOI : 10.1145/3677052.3698606.

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Generation of LOD4 models for buildings towards the automated 3D modeling of BIMs and digital twins

B. G. Pantoja Rosero; A. M. Rusnak; F. Kaplan; K. Beyer 

Automation in Construction. 2024. Vol. 168, num. Part A. DOI : 10.1016/j.autcon.2024.105822.

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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.

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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.

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DESCRIPTIVE TERMINOLOGY IN UKRAINIAN EPIGRAPHY: A CORPUS-BASED STUDY OF SYNONYMOUS TRIPLET “ГРАФІТІ”, “НАПИС”, AND “ЗАПИС”

H. Tamrazyan 

Scientific Journal of National Pedagogical Dragomanov University. Series 9. Current Trends in Language Development / Науковий часопис Національного педагогічного університету імені М.П. Драгоманова. 09 Сучасні тенденції розвитку мов.. 2024. num. 27.

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Automatic Removal of Non-Architectural Elements in 3D Models of Historic Buildings with Language Embedded Radiance Fields

A. M. Rusnak; B. G. Pantoja Rosero; F. Kaplan; K. Beyer 

Heritage. 2024. Vol. 7, num. 6, p. 3332 – 3349. DOI : 10.3390/heritage7060157.

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

H. Tamrazyan; Hovhannisyan Gayane 

Heritage. 2024. Vol. 7, num. 5, p. 2296 – 2312. DOI : 10.3390/heritage7050109.

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