Exploration of Medieval Manuscripts through Keyword Spotting in the MENS Project

Proc. of the 22nd Int. Conf. of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA 2023) -- Discussion Papers. Volume 3537 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, https://ceur-ws.org/. 2023.

In-depth searching for specific content in medieval manuscripts requires labor-intensive, hence time-consuming manual manuscript screening. Using existing IT tools to carry out this task has not been possible, since state-of-the-art keyword spotting lacks the necessary metaknowledge or larger ontology that scholars intuitively apply in their investigations. This problem is being addressed in the "Research S udtirol/Alto Adige" 2019 project "MENS -- Medieval Explorations in Neuro-Science (1050--1450): Ontology-Based Keyword Spotting in Manuscript Scans," whose goal is to build a paradigmatic case study for compiling and subsequent screening of large collections of manuscript scans by using AI techniques for natural language processing and data management based on formal ontologies. We report here on the ongoing work and the results achieved so far in the MENS project.

@inproceedings{AIxIA-2023,
   title = "Exploration of Medieval Manuscripts through Keyword Spotting in
the MENS Project",
   year = "2023",
   author = "Hubert Alisade and Diego Calvanese and Mario Klarer and
Alessandro Mosca and Nonyelum Ndefo and Bernadette Rangger and Aaron
Tratter",
   booktitle = "Proc. of the 22nd Int. Conf. of the Italian Association for
Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA 2023) -- Discussion Papers",
   pages = "67--74",
   volume = "3537",
   publisher = "CEUR-WS.org",
   series = "CEUR Workshop Proceedings, https://ceur-ws.org/",
}