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Automatic disambiguation of Latin abbreviations in early modern texts for humanities digital libraries

Published: 27 May 2003 Publication History

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Early modern books written in Latin contain many abbreviations of common words that are derived from earlier manuscript practice. While these abbreviations are usually easily deciphered by a reader well-versed in Latin, they pose technical problems for full text digitization: they are difficult to OCR or have typed and --- if they are not expanded correctly --- they limit the effectiveness of information retrieval and reading support tools in the digital library. In this paper, I will describe a method for the automatic expansion and disambiguation of these abbreviations.

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        JCDL '03: Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
        May 2003
        393 pages
        ISBN:0769519393

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        2. history of science
        3. tagging early modern texts

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