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Dear list members,
I've had this request come to me via UCLDH and it may be better circulated here.
Is anyone interested in the attached potential project, “to use computer artificial intelligence techniques (“AI”) to produce transcriptions of original ancient legal texts and to publish them online.”
If so please get in contact with Ian directly at the below address.
Best wishes
Simon
From: Ian
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Sent: 14 November 2018 10:35
Subject: Suggestion for research project
I am a volunteer researcher at Kenwood House, North London. In the course of my investigations into the history of the Kenwood Estate, I had an idea for a project which I hope may be of interest to one of the research students at the Centre
for Digital Humanities. Some notes are attached.
I am already in contact with Dr. Louise Seaward of UCL's Bentham Project. We ran some trials using the Transkribus software, but the results were disappointingly not good enough. I also approached DeepMind, but they were unable to help. The difficult challenge
is to create a deep learning program capable not only of reading and transcribing the original images, but also the cross-disciplinary requirement of translating the Latin legal texts into English.
I am a retired solicitor in my mid 70s with 30 year's background experience in IT. Although the project is too much for me alone, maybe I could still be involved in some way.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Ian Trackman
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