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

2026

ICDAR 2026 HIPE-OCRepair Competition on LLM-Assisted OCR Post-correction for Historical Documents

M. Ehrmann; E. Boros; J. Opitz; A. Michail; F. Wagner et al. 

2026. The 20th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Vienna, Austria, 2026-09-01. p. 405 – 422. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-032-36042-7_24.

A Dataset of Cultural Heritage Manipulation on English Wikipedia in the Russo–Ukrainian Context

M. Garambois; H. Tamrazyan; E. Boros 

2026. SIGIR ’26: The 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Melbourne, Australia, 2026-07-20 – 2026-07-24. p. 3183 – 3189. DOI : 10.1145/3805712.3808580.

Digitising Endangered Armenian Epigraphic Heritage in India

G. Hovhannisyan; H. Tamrazyan 

Միջազգային գիտաժողովի նյութեր; Երևան: ՀՀ ԳԱԱ Գիտակրթական միջազգային կենտրոն, 2026.

The hedonic evaluation of neurofeedback stimuli is fast, automatic and implicit An ERP study on stimulus design

A. Naas; D. Cai; P. S. Shabestari; T. Kleinjung; D. R. Lemay et al. 

2026

Data Augmentation for Historical NER: A Systematic Comparison of Lexical and LLM-based Approaches

L. Blinière; M. Ehrmann; E. Boros; S. Clematide; F. Kaplan 

2026. 11th Edition of the Swiss Text Analytics Conference, Oerlikon, Zurich, 2026-06-10. p. 154 – 170.

Toward Interoperable and Scalable Representations of Complex Heterogeneous Digitized Historical Media

P. I. Conti; S. Clematide; M. Ehrmann 

2026. First Workshop on Creating Interoperable Corpora of Historical Newspapers (PressMint-LREC2026), Palama de Mallorca, Spain, 2026-05-15. p. 72 – 81.

JADIS SuperMapRealigner: A Generic Method for the Automatic Alignment of Historical Maps

R. Petitpierre; M. Jan; P. Guhennec 

2026.

Generalizable Multiscale Segmentation of Heterogeneous Map Collections

R. Petitpierre 

2026

From Stone to Standards: A Digital Heritage Interoperability Model for Armenian Epigraphy Within the Leiden and EpiDoc Frameworks

H. Tamrazyan; G. Hovhannisyan; A. Harutyunyan 

Heritage. 2026. Vol. 9, num. 1. DOI : 10.3390/heritage9010027.

Armenian AutoEpiDoc: Automated Extraction and Encoding of Armenian Inscriptions into EpiDoc TEI/XML

H. Tamrazyan; E. Cornamusaz; E. Boros 

2026. 10th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature, Rabat, Morocco, 2026-03-28 – 2026-03-29. p. 11 – 15. DOI : 10.18653/v1/2026.latechclfl-1.2.

Aggregated Database on the History of Cartography (ADHOC)

R. Petitpierre 

2026.

ICDAR 2025 Competition on Historical Map Text Detection, Recognition, and Linking

Y. Lin; S. Tual; Z. Li; L. Jang; Y. Y. Chiang et al. 

2026. 19th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2025), Wuhan, China, 2025-09-16 – 2025-09-21. p. 568 – 585. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-032-04630-7_33.

Scalable Music Cover Retrieval Using Lyrics-Aligned Audio Embeddings

J. Affolter; B. Martin; E. V. Epure; G. Meseguer-Brocal; F. Kaplan 

2026. 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2026), Delft, Netherlands, 2026-03-29 – 2026-04-02. p. 49 – 66. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-032-21289-4_4.

CLEF HIPE-2026: Evaluating Accurate and Efficient Person–Place Relation Extraction from Multilingual Historical Texts

J. Opitz; C. Raclé; E. Boros; A. Michail; M. Romanello et al. 

2026. 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2026), Delft, Netherlands, 2026-03-29 – 2026-04-02. p. 354 – 363. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-032-21321-1_46.

Data Augmentation Strategies for Historical Named Entity Recognition

L. Blinière 

2026.

Semantic Segmentation Map Dataset (Semap)

R. Petitpierre; D. Gomez Donoso; B. Kriesel 

2026.

A Layer of Late Victorian London: The Building Footprints from the 1:1,056 Ordnance Survey Map (1891–1896)

R. Petitpierre; P. Hudson; K. Mcdonough; B. Vaienti; I. Di Lenardo et al. 

Journal of Open Humanities Data. 2026. Vol. 12, p. 111. DOI : 10.5334/johd.602.

From Corpus to Concept Scheme: Towards Developing a SKOS Vocabulary for Armenian Epigraphic Heritage

H. Tamrazyan; K. Nour; E. Boros 

2026. 10th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature, Rabat, Morocco, 2026-03-28 – 2026-03-29. p. 1 – 10. DOI : 10.18653/v1/2026.latechclfl-1.1.

2025

Autocatalyse et hyperstition

F. Kaplan 

Penser l’intelligence artificielle : Enjeux philosophiques, politiques et culturels de l’automatisation numérique; Dijon: Les presses du réel, 2025. p. 220 – 231.

Georeferencing historical maps using local feature matching and Delaunay consistency

B. Vaienti; I. di Lenardo; F. Kaplan 

Cartography and Geographic Information Science. 2025.  p. 1 – 23. DOI : 10.1080/15230406.2025.2566789.