GT4HistCommentLayout contains layout annotations for ca. 370 pages sampled from 8 public domain classical commentaries, published in the 19th century in English, German and Latin. The commentaries concern Ancient Greek and Latin works from prose and poetry (caveat: AGreek poetry is slightly over-represented).
The dataset comes in two formats: alto_xml and json containing the same information. For each format, there is one file per page (named after the image's id). Each json is single list of region-dictionnaries, like so:
[
# The first region :
{"label": "MainZone:primaryText", # The segmonto-style label of the region
"bbox": [ [100, 100], [300, 300] ] # The region's bbox in xyxy format (upperleft x-y, bottomright x-y)
},
# The second region:
# ...
] An example of annotated commentary page is shown in the image below. Pages were annotated according to a taxonomy mapped to the SegmOnto controlled vocabulary.
| ID | Genre | Lang. | Bibl. Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| annalsoftacitusp00taci | prose | Latin | H. Furneaux. 1896. The annals of Tacitus. P. Cornelii Taciti annalium ab excessu Divi Augusti libri. Oxford |
| bsb10234118 | poetry | Agreek | Lobeck, Christian August. 1835. Sophoclis Aiax. Leipzig: Weidmann |
| cu31924087948174 | poetry | AGreek | Lewis Campbell. 1881. Sophocles. Oxford : Clarendon Press |
| pvergiliusmaroa00virggoog | poetry | Latin | Norden, E. Aen. 6. 1903. Leipzig: Teubner |
| sophoclesplaysa05campgoog | poetry | AGreek | Jebb, Richard Claverhouse. 1896. Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments. London: Cambridge University Press. |
| sophokle1v3soph | poetry | Agreek | Schneidewin, Friedrich Wilhelm. 1853. Sophokles Erklaert von F. W. Schneidewin. Leipzig: Weidmann |
| thukydides02thuc | prose | AGreek | J. Classen & J. Steup. 1889. Thukydides erklärt, 7., Weidmann: Berlin |
| Wecklein1894 | poetry | AGreek | Wecklein, Nikolaus. 1894. Sophokleus Aias. München: Lindauer |
Detailed statistics about the annotated dataset can be found in the stats.txt (automatically generated by humGenerator).
If you use this dataset in your research, please cite the following publication:
@inproceedings{najem-meyer_page-layout-analysis_2022,
title = {Page {{Layout Analysis}} of {{Text-heavy Historical Documents}}: A {{Comparison}} of {{Textual}} and {{Visual Approaches}}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {{Conference}} on {{Computational Humanities Research}} 2022},
author = {{Najem-Meyer}, Sven and Romanello, Matteo},
year = {2022},
publisher = {{CEUR-WS}},
address = {{Antwerp}}
}
This dataset is released under a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY).
Data in this repository were produced in the context of the Ajax Multi-Commentary project, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation under an Ambizione grant PZ00P1_186033.
Contributors: Carla Amaya (UNIL), Sven Najem-Meyer (EPFL), Matteo Romanello (UNIL).