Structuring Authenticity Assessments on Historical Documents using LLMs

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Hauptverfasser: Schimmenti, Andrea, Pasqual, Valentina, Tomasi, Francesca, Vitali, Fabio, van Erp, Marieke
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author Schimmenti, Andrea
Pasqual, Valentina
Tomasi, Francesca
Vitali, Fabio
van Erp, Marieke
author_facet Schimmenti, Andrea
Pasqual, Valentina
Tomasi, Francesca
Vitali, Fabio
van Erp, Marieke
contents Given the wide use of forgery throughout history, scholars have and are continuously engaged in assessing the authenticity of historical documents. However, online catalogues merely offer descriptive metadata for these documents, relegating discussions about their authenticity to free-text formats, making it difficult to study these assessments at scale. This study explores the generation of structured data about documents' authenticity assessment from natural language texts. Our pipeline exploits Large Language Models (LLMs) to select, extract and classify relevant claims about the topic without the need for training, and Semantic Web technologies to structure and type-validate the LLM's results. The final output is a catalogue of documents whose authenticity has been debated, along with scholars' opinions on their authenticity. This process can serve as a valuable resource for integration into catalogues, allowing room for more intricate queries and analyses on the evolution of these debates over centuries.
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spellingShingle Structuring Authenticity Assessments on Historical Documents using LLMs
Schimmenti, Andrea
Pasqual, Valentina
Tomasi, Francesca
Vitali, Fabio
van Erp, Marieke
Digital Libraries
Given the wide use of forgery throughout history, scholars have and are continuously engaged in assessing the authenticity of historical documents. However, online catalogues merely offer descriptive metadata for these documents, relegating discussions about their authenticity to free-text formats, making it difficult to study these assessments at scale. This study explores the generation of structured data about documents' authenticity assessment from natural language texts. Our pipeline exploits Large Language Models (LLMs) to select, extract and classify relevant claims about the topic without the need for training, and Semantic Web technologies to structure and type-validate the LLM's results. The final output is a catalogue of documents whose authenticity has been debated, along with scholars' opinions on their authenticity. This process can serve as a valuable resource for integration into catalogues, allowing room for more intricate queries and analyses on the evolution of these debates over centuries.
title Structuring Authenticity Assessments on Historical Documents using LLMs
topic Digital Libraries
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.09290