Natural Language Processing for Historical Texts (Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies)

Natural Language Processing for Historical Texts More and more historical texts are becoming available in digital form. Digitization of paper documents is motivated by the aim of preserving cultural heritage and making it more accessible, both to laypeople and scholars. As digital images cannot be searched for text, digitization projects increasingly strive to create digital text, which can be searched and otherwise automatically processed, in a… Full description