Ruse of reuse: Detecting text-similarity with AI in historical sources

Automatic cataloguing of the Books of Hours. Textual unit identification and structural annotation

5 Mar 2026, 13:00

30m

Seminary rooms 7 and 8, 5th Floor (Georg-Coch-Platz 2, Austrian Academy of Sciences)

Session 2

Speaker

Svetlana Yatsyk (IRHT, CNRS)

Description

The talk will deal with rule-based approaches, which allow us to establish a baseline that will be further used to assess the benefits of the LLMs (both in detection quality and computational cost).