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New workflow identifies historical text reuse with LLM assistance

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Researchers have developed a new workflow for identifying essay-scale republication and reuse of fragmented historical texts, focusing on the works of eighteenth-century philosopher David Hume. The study compares a staged rule-based workflow against direct LLM settings and automated rule adaptation. The proposed workflow achieved a high F1 score on labeled data and demonstrated a strong precision-recall trade-off, effectively consolidating evidence into plausible transmission relations. This method provides a practical approach for creating compact candidate spaces for historical analysis, even with incomplete ground truth. AI

IMPACT This research demonstrates a novel application of LLMs for historical text analysis, potentially improving the accuracy and efficiency of digital humanities research.

RANK_REASON This is a research paper detailing a new methodology for text reuse analysis. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=0.7]

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New workflow identifies historical text reuse with LLM assistance

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Ke Shu, Kira Hinderks, Eetu M\"akel\"a, Mikko Tolonen ·

    Pair-Level Essay-Scale Republication and Reuse from Fragmented Historical Text Reuse: A Workflow Study on Eighteenth-Century Books and Newspapers

    arXiv:2608.27343v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper addresses the recovery of essay-scale republication and reuse from fragmented text-reuse evidence, a setting whose central challenge is pair-level evidence consolidation and not fragment retrieval alone. The study focuses…

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