Eva Pettersson

Uncovering Work from Words: LLM-Based Information Extraction from Historical Petitions

Lindqvist, Ellinor; Pettersson, Eva; Nivre, Joakim

2026

Finding the Plea: Evaluating the Ability of LLMs to Identify Rhetorical Structure in Swedish and English Historical Petitions

Lindqvist, Ellinor; Pettersson, Eva; Nivre, Joakim

Part of Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Language Models for Digital Humanities, p. 86-101, 2025

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Quantifying Medieval Scribal Habits: The Case of Abbreviations in Old West Norse Manuscripts

Mårtensson, Lasse; Óskarsson, Veturliði; Pettersson, Eva

Part of Maal og Minne, p. 101-128, 2025

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People and Places of the Past: Named Entity Recognition in Swedish Labour Movement Documents from Historical Sources

Tudor, Crina; Pettersson, Eva

Part of Proceedings of the 8th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature (LaTeCH-CLfL 2024), p. 185-195, 2024

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SWENER-1800: A Corpus for Named Entity Recognition in 19th Century Swedish

Pettersson, Eva; Borin, Lars; Lenas, Erik

Part of DHNB2024 Conference Proceedings, 2024

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Quantifying Medieval Scribal Habits: The Case of Abbreviations in Old West Norse Manuscripts

Mårtensson, Lasse; Óskarsson, Veturliði; Pettersson, Eva

Part of Maal og Minne, p. 101-128, 2025

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Decryption of historical manuscripts: the DECRYPT project

Megyesi, Beáta; Esslinger, Bernhard; Fornés, Alicia; Kopal, Nils et al.

Part of Cryptologia, p. 545-559, 2020

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Swedish Diachronic Corpus

Pettersson, Eva; Borin, Lars

Part of CLARIN, p. 561-585, Walter de Gruyter, 2022

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Supporting Research Environment for Less Explored Languages: A Case Study of Swedish and Turkish

Megyesi, Beata; Dahlqvist, Bengt; Pettersson, Eva; Gustafson-Capkova, Sofia et al.

Part of Resourceful Language Technology, p. 96-110, Uppsala universitet, 2008

Uncovering Work from Words: LLM-Based Information Extraction from Historical Petitions

Lindqvist, Ellinor; Pettersson, Eva; Nivre, Joakim

2026

Finding the Plea: Evaluating the Ability of LLMs to Identify Rhetorical Structure in Swedish and English Historical Petitions

Lindqvist, Ellinor; Pettersson, Eva; Nivre, Joakim

Part of Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Language Models for Digital Humanities, p. 86-101, 2025

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People and Places of the Past: Named Entity Recognition in Swedish Labour Movement Documents from Historical Sources

Tudor, Crina; Pettersson, Eva

Part of Proceedings of the 8th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature (LaTeCH-CLfL 2024), p. 185-195, 2024

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SWENER-1800: A Corpus for Named Entity Recognition in 19th Century Swedish

Pettersson, Eva; Borin, Lars; Lenas, Erik

Part of DHNB2024 Conference Proceedings, 2024

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Low-Resource Techniques for Analysing the Rhetorical Structure of Swedish Historical Petitions

Lindqvist, Ellinor; Pettersson, Eva; Nivre, Joakim

Part of Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Resources and Representations for Under-Resourced Languages and Domains (RESOURCEFUL-2023), p. 132-139, 2023

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To the Most Gracious Highness, from Your Humble Servant: Analysing Swedish 18th Century Petitions Using Text Classification

Lindqvist, Ellinor; Pettersson, Eva; Nivre, Joakim

Part of Proceedings of the 6th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature, p. 53-64, 2022

Identifying Cleartext in Historical Ciphers

Gambardell, Maria Elena; Pettersson, Eva; Megyesi, Beáta

Part of Proceedings of the Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages. LT4HALA 2022., 2022

Czech Historical Named Entity Corpus v 1.0

Hubkova, Helena; Kral, Pavel; Pettersson, Eva

Part of Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020), p. 4458-4465, 2020

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Czech Historical Named Entity Corpus v 1.0

Hubková, Helena; Král, Pavel; Pettersson, Eva

Part of 12th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020), p. 4458-4465, 2020

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Matching Keys and Encrypted Manuscripts

Pettersson, Eva; Megyesi, Beáta

Part of Proceedings of the 22nd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa '19), 2019

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The DECODE Database: Collection of Historical Ciphers and Keys

Megyesi, Beáta; Blomqvist, Nils; Pettersson, Eva

Part of Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Historical Cryptology, p. 69-78, 2019

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The HistCorp Collection of Historical Corpora and Resources

Pettersson, Eva; Megyesi, Beata

Part of DHN 2018, p. 306-320, 2018

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An evaluation of neural machine translation models on historical spelling normalization

Tang, Gongbo; Cap, Fabienne; Pettersson, Eva; Nivre, Joakim

Part of Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, p. 1320-1331, 2018

Annotating Errors in Student Texts: First Experiences and Experiments

Stymne, Sara; Pettersson, Eva; Megyesi, Beáta; Palmér, Anne

Part of Proceedings of Joint 6th NLP4CALL and 2nd NLP4LA Nodalida workshop, p. 47-60, 2017

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Comparing Rule-based and SMT-based Spelling Normalisation for English Historical Texts

Schneider, Gerold; Pettersson, Eva; Percillier, Michael

Part of Proceedings of the NoDaLiDa 2017 Workshop on Processing Historical Language, 2017

HistSearch: Implementation and Evaluation of aWeb-based Tool for Automatic Information Extraction from Historical Text

Pettersson, Eva; Lindström, Jonas; Jacobsson, Benny; Fiebranz, Rosemarie

Part of Proceedings of the 3rd HistoInformaticsWorkshop, Krakow, Poland, 11 July 2016, 2016

Improving Verb Phrase Extraction from Historical Text by Use of Verb Valency Frames

Pettersson, Eva; Nivre, Joakim

Part of Proceedings of the 20th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics, p. 153-161, 2015

Ranking Relevant Verb Phrases Extracted from Historical Text

Pettersson, Eva; Megyesi, Beata; Nivre, Joakim

Part of Proceedings of the 9th SIGHUM Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities, 2015

Verb Phrase Extraction in a Historical Context

Pettersson, Eva; Megyesi, Beata; Nivre, Joakim

2014

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A Multilingual Evaluation of Three Spelling Normalization Methods for Historical Text

Pettersson, Eva; Megyesi, Beáta; Nivre, Joakim

Part of Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Language Technologyfor Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities(LaTeCH), p. 32-41, 2014

A Multilingual Evaluation of Three Spelling Normalization Methods for Historical Text.

Pettersson, Eva; Megyesi, Beata; Nivre, Joakim

Part of Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences and Humanities, LaTeCH 2014, 2014

Normalization of historical Text Using Context-Sensitive Weighted Levenshtein Distance and Compound Splitting

Pettersson, Eva; Megyesi, Beata; Nivre, Joakim

Part of Proceedings of the 19th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2013

An SMT Approach to Automatic Annotation of Historical Texts

Pettersson, Eva; Megyesi, Beata; Tiedemann, Jörg

Part of Workshop on Computational Historical Linguistics, Nodalida 2013., 2013

Parsing the Past - Identification of Verb Constructions in Historical Text

Pettersson, Eva; Megyesi, Beata; Nivre, Joakim

Part of Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities, 2012

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Rule-Based Normalisation of Historical Text – a Diachronic Study

Pettersson, Eva; Megyesi, Beata; Nivre, Joakim

Part of Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, p. 333-341, 2012

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Automatic Verb Extraction from Historical Swedish Texts

Pettersson, Eva; Nivre, Joakim

Part of Proceedings of the 5th ACL-HLT Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities, p. 87-95, 2011

Swedish-Turkish Parallel Treebank

Megyesi, Beata; Dahlqvist, Bengt; Pettersson, Eva; Nivre, Joakim

Part of Proceedings of the Sixth International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08), 2008

Spelling Normalisation and Linguistic Analysis of Historical Text for Information Extraction

Pettersson, Eva

2016

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Supporting Research Environment for Swedish and Turkish

Megyesi, Beata; Csató, Éva Ágnes; Dahlqvist, Bengt; Gustafson-Capková, Sofia et al.

2008