“To Have the ‘Million’ Readers Yet”: Building a Digitally Enhanced Edition of the Bilingual Irish-English Newspaper an Gaodhal (1881-1898)

Oksana Dereza, Deirdre Ní Chonghaile, Nicholas Wolf

Abstract
This paper introduces two new OCR models for the Irish language, a BART-based OCR post-correction model, and the core dataset on which they were trained: a monthly bilingual Irish-English newspaper named An Gaodhal that was produced from 1881 to 1898 by an Irishman living in Brooklyn, New York.
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2024.lt4hala-1.9
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Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages (LT4HALA) @ LREC-COLING-2024
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May
Year:
2024
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Torino, Italia
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Rachele Sprugnoli, Marco Passarotti
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LT4HALA | WS
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ELRA and ICCL
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65–78
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Oksana Dereza, Deirdre Ní Chonghaile, and Nicholas Wolf. 2024. “To Have the ‘Million’ Readers Yet”: Building a Digitally Enhanced Edition of the Bilingual Irish-English Newspaper an Gaodhal (1881-1898). In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages (LT4HALA) @ LREC-COLING-2024, pages 65–78, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL.
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“To Have the ‘Million’ Readers Yet”: Building a Digitally Enhanced Edition of the Bilingual Irish-English Newspaper an Gaodhal (1881-1898) (Dereza et al., LT4HALA-WS 2024)
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