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| author | Bardiot, Clarisse Langlais, Pierre-Carl Jacquemin, Bernard Hart, Jacob Lagarias, Antonios Foucault, Nicolas Lemaître-Legargeant, Aurélie Fras, Jeanne |
| author_facet | Bardiot, Clarisse Langlais, Pierre-Carl Jacquemin, Bernard Hart, Jacob Lagarias, Antonios Foucault, Nicolas Lemaître-Legargeant, Aurélie Fras, Jeanne |
| contents | Many heritage institutions hold extensive collections of theatre programmes, which remain largely underused due to their complex layouts and lack of structured metadata. In this paper, we present a workflow for transforming such documents into structured data using a combination of multimodal large language models (LLMs), an ontology-based reasoning model, and a custom extension of the Linked Art framework. We show how vision-language models can accurately parse and transcribe born-digital and digitised programmes, achieving over 98% of correct extraction. To overcome the challenges of semantic annotation, we train a reasoning model (POntAvignon) using reinforcement learning with both formal and semantic rewards. This approach enables automated RDF triple generation and supports alignment with existing knowledge graphs. Through a case study based on the Festival d'Avignon corpus, we demonstrate the potential for large-scale, ontology-driven analysis of performing arts data. Our results open new possibilities for interoperable, explainable, and sustainable computational theatre historiography. |
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| spellingShingle | From Show Programmes to Data: Designing a Workflow to Make Performing Arts Ephemera Accessible Through Language Models Bardiot, Clarisse Langlais, Pierre-Carl Jacquemin, Bernard Hart, Jacob Lagarias, Antonios Foucault, Nicolas Lemaître-Legargeant, Aurélie Fras, Jeanne Information Retrieval Many heritage institutions hold extensive collections of theatre programmes, which remain largely underused due to their complex layouts and lack of structured metadata. In this paper, we present a workflow for transforming such documents into structured data using a combination of multimodal large language models (LLMs), an ontology-based reasoning model, and a custom extension of the Linked Art framework. We show how vision-language models can accurately parse and transcribe born-digital and digitised programmes, achieving over 98% of correct extraction. To overcome the challenges of semantic annotation, we train a reasoning model (POntAvignon) using reinforcement learning with both formal and semantic rewards. This approach enables automated RDF triple generation and supports alignment with existing knowledge graphs. Through a case study based on the Festival d'Avignon corpus, we demonstrate the potential for large-scale, ontology-driven analysis of performing arts data. Our results open new possibilities for interoperable, explainable, and sustainable computational theatre historiography. |
| title | From Show Programmes to Data: Designing a Workflow to Make Performing Arts Ephemera Accessible Through Language Models |
| topic | Information Retrieval |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.07452 |