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VLMs map 20th-century Armenian diaspora ads from historical French press

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Researchers have developed a novel pipeline to extract and geocode commercial advertisements from digitized 20th-century Armenian newspapers in France. This system utilizes vision-language models (VLMs) to overcome the challenges of processing the under-resourced Western Armenian language and the poor quality of scanned historical documents. The project introduces a new corpus of Western Armenian press with advertisement annotations and a reproducible workflow applicable to similar historical language data. AI

IMPACT Demonstrates VLM effectiveness for under-resourced historical languages, potentially enabling new research avenues in digital humanities.

RANK_REASON The item is an academic paper detailing a new methodology for processing historical documents using AI. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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VLMs map 20th-century Armenian diaspora ads from historical French press

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Chahan Vidal-Gor\`ene (CJM, LIPN), Seda Kirakosyan (UFAR), Edita Matevosyan (UFAR) ·

    Mapping Armenian Paris: Extracting and Geocoding Commercial Advertisements from the 20th-Century Diaspora Press

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