Deirdre Ní Chonghaile


2024

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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)
Oksana Dereza | Deirdre Ní Chonghaile | Nicholas Wolf
Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages (LT4HALA) @ LREC-COLING-2024

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.