Which papyrus HTR is good enough? Character-error-rate tolerance of four papyrological tasks on Greek texts

arXiv:2609.37755 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-09-29 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-09-29

Updated: 2026-09-29

Code: https://github.com/papyri/idp.data

Terminology

• Accuracy — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transformer — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Downstream Tasks — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Embeddings — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Grounding — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Regularization — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

Sources

• Structure-Aware Text Recognition for Ancient Greek Critical Editions
• Instruct-Tuning Pretrained Causal Language Models for Ancient Greek Papyrology and Epigraphy
• Reading or Guessing? Visual Grounding Failures of Vision-Language Models for OCR in Ancient Greek Editions
• An Assessment of the Impact of OCR Noise on Language Models

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