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"abstract": "We propose a mixed methods approach to the identification of scribes and authors in handwritten documents, and present LiViTo, a software tool which combines linguistic insights and computer vision techniques in order to assist researchers in the analysis of handwritten historical documents. Our research shows that it is feasible to train neural networks for the automatic transcription of handwritten documents and to use these transcriptions as input for further learning processes. Hypotheses about scribes can be tested effectively by extracting visual handwriting features and clustering them appropriately. Methods from linguistics and from computer vision research integrate into a mixed methods system, with benefits on both sides. LiViTo was trained with historical Czech texts by 18th century immigrants to Berlin, a total of 564 pages from a corpus of about 5000 handwritten pages without indication of author or scribe. We provide an overview of the three-year development of LiViTo and an introduction into its methodology and its functions. We then present our findings concerning the corpus of Berlin Czech manuscripts and discuss possible further usage scenarios.",
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"text": "Historical manuscripts are an essential source for all humanities. In line with the apparently rising interest in everyday culture (Meyer, 2007) , new research stimuli can be expected from hitherto unknown texts in small private or parochial archives. They may contain reports by personal witnesses, new information on everyday culture, and samples of everyday language. For a long time, many communities have been cherishing a purely handwritten culture that can be fully understood only by assessing personal manuscripts. The present project is devoted to exploring handwritten sources of a small, but linguistically, culturally and historically extraordinary community of migrants to 18th c. Berlin: the \"Czech brethren\" (aka Moravian Church, Herrnhuter Br\u00fcdergemeine), who fled from anti-Protestant persecution in the Czech lands to Saxony and Prussia. Research questions that arise in this context are: 1) Are the manuscripts originals or handwritten copies? 2) Are the originator/author and the scribe the same person? 3) How many authors and scribes worked on the manuscripts? 4) Can these authors and scribes be found in other manuscripts? 5) Are there revisions in the manuscripts and where are they?",
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"text": "For the identification of scribes and authors in manuscripts, methods from classical linguistic analysis are combined with modern computer vision approaches, such as neural networks. This approach enhances the knowledge discovery process and knowledge representation. The idea of automatically discovering knowledge from manuscripts is a very attractive and challenging task. The main motivation for applying neural networks to knowledge extraction and clustering tasks is that they require mainly data to make the algorithm work. Hence they do not depend on a specific language the manuscripts are written in and can be easily retrained for other languages. To get information about authors and scribes statistical analysis of linguistic features is used in order to make quantitative statements. Analysing the output generated by neural networks with the algorithm and the Euclidean or other distances allows to make more precise statements about the relationship between texts, authors and scribes even for rather short documents of less than 1000 tokens. Text length is a major issue for alternative, stylometric approaches to our research question, such as the one implemented in stylo (Eder, 2016) . Unfortunately, stylo is suboptimal for our case due to the strong dependence of the text length and the accuracy of the results.",
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"text": "The potential target audience for LiViTo are generally researchers and students from different disciplineshumanities, social studies, law and medicine. In general, LiViTo is intended to be an assistance system for analysing, comparing and clustering of handwritten (historic) data. Research questions in law and medicine could be the origin or the linguistic and visual interdependence of handwritten legal documents such as birth certificates and clinical records, testaments or agreements. In that regard, the questions of the humanities and social sciences are often equal to law and medicine. Such tasks can occur in history, theology, literature, cultural studies, linguistics, cultural anthropology, sociology, political sciences and many other research subjects. Obviously there is a high amount of fields in the humanities and social studies which could reach the goals of their research questions easier and faster. Meticulous and close reading, understanding and analysis of handwritten texts is an inalienable part of such a research process. Such a qualitative research approach can be combined with the (half-)automatic methods of LiViTo focusing quantitative data, obtained by statistical research methods, resulting in a mixed methods research approach. It should be clear to the user that LiViTo is a data driven assistance system which provides results that can lead the user to both kinds of results -quantitative and qualitative. LiViTo is designed in such a way that it requires the user to have only minimal programming knowledge.",
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"text": "LiViTos functionality shall be explained on three use cases. Figure 2 gives an overview of LiViTos module dependency and data flow. The main module, which is underlying the main functionalities is the pre-processor module. It needs to be executed before the other modules can be used. The pre-processor takes all input images and extracts text lines from the manuscripts, which will be needed for the other modules. The pre-processor also creates a data structure which will be built upon by the other modules. Module 1: Scribe Detector The interaction with this module is fairly simple. The user needs to provide a folder of about 100 text line segmentations per scribe to the training system, which were generated in the pre-processing step. Next the neural network will try to differentiate the scribes from each other. The grade to which the hypothetical scribes are distinguishable will be shown in a graph. The scribe detector has two use cases. First it can be used as a tool for hypothesis testing for identifying probable scribes in manuscripts. Figure 3 shows the users hypothesis/training results for two training processes. The upper graph in Figure 3 shows that the user made a hypothesis, which the network could not verify, as no mono colour clusters can be formed. Each data point represents a single text line segmentation, whereas the colour stands for the respective class attributed by the neural network. 128 features from Figure 3 illustrates the case where the user made a hypothesis which can verified to a high degree.",
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"text": "In our special research question about the scribes of the Czech immigrant manuscripts from the 18th century in Berlin LiViTo assisted us in making the following conclusions: (i) Significant revisions were made in the first half of the 19th century. LiViTo helped localizing the 4 https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.04597 (Last access December 2, 2019) revisions without close reading of the manuscripts and categorized their kinds. Especially the revisions of <j> to <\u00ed> guided us to the revision moment not earlier than in the 1820s, because of the grammatical regulations of Czech standard language made by Josef Dobrovsk\u00fd in the first 20 years of the 19th century (Dobrovsk\u00fd, 1809 (Dobrovsk\u00fd, , 1819 . (ii) We could finally identify 10 scribes who wrote the analysed manuscripts with linguistic and visual features. LiViTo assisted the search for different linguistic features, as the archaic verb form <ge\u017ft> versus the modern <ge>. (iii) In the tradition of the Czech brethren in the 18th century these manuscripts should be an autograph of the people the CVs are dealing with. Altogether there are 183 people mentioned, but there are 10 scribes. All manuscripts are probably copies and not the originals. A deeper interpretation of the results will be finished by April 2020.",
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