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Entities, Dates, and Languages: Zero-Shot on Historical Texts with T0
In this work, we explore whether the recently demonstrated zero-shot abilities of the T0 model extend to Named Entity Recognition for out-of-distribution languages and time periods. Using a historical newspaper corpus in 3 languages as test-bed, we use prompts to extract possible named entities. Our results show that a naive...De Toni, Francesco ; Akiki, Christopher ; de la Rosa, Javier ; Fourrier, Clémentine ; Manjavacas, Enrique …
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An Introduction to AI for GLAM
There is a growing interest in utilising Machine Learning (ML) techniques within Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM), and a corresponding demand for training to enable practitioners to engage confidently in this area. Staff at these institutions are seeking practical knowledge and skills in ML concepts and methods specific to...van Strien, Daniel ; Bell, Mark ; McGregor, Nora Rose ; Trizna, Michael
ICML, GLAM, and Machine Learning
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Documenting Geographically and Contextually Diverse Data Sources: The BigScience Catalogue of Language Data and Resources
In recent years, large-scale data collection efforts have prioritized the amount of data collected in order to improve the modeling capabilities of large language models. This prioritization, however, has resulted in concerns with respect to the rights of data subjects represented in data collections, particularly when considering the difficulty in... -
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Flexibility and egalitarianism: musical insights from hunter-gatherers
Among egalitarian hunter-gatherer groups across the African continent, musical practices and egalitarianism are argued to be constitutive of one another. Southeast Asian hunter-gatherers also practice egalitarianism, however, their musical practices represent a seeming anomaly alongside those of African hunter-gatherer groups. Discussion of ‘hunter-gatherer musics’ that includes Southeast Asian perspectives has...Rudge, Alice
egalitarianism, polyphony, aesthetics, hunter-gatherer, diversity, and flexibility
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A catalogue of manuscript and printed reports, field books, memoirs, maps, etc., of the Indian Surveys, deposited in the map room of the India office
A catalogue of manuscript and printed reports, field books, memoirs, maps, etc., of the Indian Surveys, deposited in the map room of the India office is the published listing of the holdings of the map collection of the India Office, the working archive used for the administration of India from...Markham, Clements
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Catalogue of Burmese Printed Books in the India Office Library
The India Office Library’s Burmese printed books, numbering some 2,800 works, constitute one the largest collections in the West and include many representative examples of Burmese writing from the early nineteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century. They are thus of special value and interest for students, scholars,...Whitbread, Kenneth
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Guide to the National Reference Library of Science and Innovation
This Guide outlines the scope, contents and layout of the National Reference Library of Science and Invention and describes its various aids, services and practices. It is, however, only a brief guide and it cannot give all the details which those who intend to use the Library extensively might find...National Reference Library of Science and Invention
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A manuscript of poems by Robert Sidney: some early impressions
IN January of this year the British Library, with the aid of generous grants from the Pilgrim Trust and the Radcliffe Trust, purchased from an unrevealed source through Messrs. Sotheby's an autograph manuscript, now numbered Additional MS. 58435, comprising sonnets, pastorals, songs, and epigrams composed by Robert Sidney (1563-1626), Earl...Kelliher, Hilton ; Duncan-Jones, Katherine
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The von Siebold Collection from Tokugawa Japan: 1. Dr Philipp Franz von Siebold's career in the Orient
BY 1867 the collection of Japanese printed books and manuscripts in the British Museum Numbered barely three hundred items whereas, for example, that of printed books alone in Hebrew ran to well over ten thousand. This relatively small collection of Japanese Materials in what were then two sections of the...Brown, Yu-Ying
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Some occasional aspects of Johann Hermann Schein
IN 1973 the Department of Printed Books of the British Library, Reference Division, acquired a collection of some ninety separate pieces of occasional verse in Latin and German, mainly epithalamia, published in Leipzig between 1608 and 1630. Amongst these are four relating to the composer Johann Hermann Schein (born 1586,...Paisey, David