arxivcs.CLcs.CV2026-07-10
Letter Lemmatization: One-to-one and Banded RNNs for Reversing Character-Set Simplification and Abbreviation in Medieval Text
Anguelos Nicolaou, Maria Pia Tiseo, Tamas Kovacs, Nicolas Renet, Georg Vogeler
Medieval document transcribers have very different practices; on top of that, heterogeneous digitization policies have resulted in corpora where the character-set must be viewed as fluid. In this paper we address the problem of changing between character-sets in a flexible manner…