arxivcs.CLcs.AIcs.DLcs.IRcs.LG2026-07-10
Automatic Thematic Indexing of Large Literary Corpora: A Machine Learning Approach to Voltaire's Complete Works
Miguel Arana-Catania, Gillian Pink, Glenn Roe
Thematic indexing -- the practice of assigning structured conceptual labels to sections of text -- is essential to scholarly access in large-scale literary and historical editions, yet it remains a largely manual, labour-intensive process. This paper explores the application of m…