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A Distant Technology? Experiments with a Generative Model for Retouching Noisy Newspaper OCR
(Tartu University Library, 2025) Brodén, Daniel; Samuelsson, Lisa; Alfter, David; Malmstedt, Johan; Nermo, Magnus; Papadopoulou Skarp, Frantzeska; Tienken, Susanne; Widholm, Andreas; Blåder, Anna
This paper explores the use of generative models to enhance digitized historical newspaper text. While these models offer new means of addressing noisy OCR, their opaque, probabilistic processes raise epistemological concerns. Within the project The Order of Criticism Revisited, which integrates literary and computational approaches to Swedish criticism, we tested GPT-4o to “retouch” OCR data from the National Library of Sweden using zero-shot prompting. Comparisons with flawed OCR outputs and manually transcribed texts show that the model produced more legible versions, often closer to the originals than the raw OCR. This indicates potential for improving the quality of digitized sources and enabling more robust large-scale analysis. However, drawing on the notions of artificial communication and distant technology, we argue that such models extend analytical capacity while creating perceptual and methodological distance. Their outputs, better seen as probabilistic “retouching” than correction or reconstruction, weaken the link to original sources.
Mapping Soundscapes of Warning: Experimental Interfaces for Public Sound Culture
(Tartu University Library, 2025) Malmstedt, Johan; Mitsurov, Kirill; Cronqvist, Marie; Nermo, Magnus; Papadopoulou Skarp, Frantzeska; Tienken, Susanne; Widholm, Andreas; Blåder, Anna
This short paper introduces Soundscapes of Warning, an experimental research application designed to support the comparative study of public warning signals as cultural and aesthetic artefacts. Developed through a collaboration between Linköping University and the C2DH at the University of Luxembourg, the platform enables users to explore how alarm sounds -– sirens and civil alert signals – vary across national and historical contexts. By combining geographic comparison with custom-designed 3D visualizations of alarm signals, the application offers a new model for investigating how warnings, urgency, and authority have been rendered sonically in different societies. Instead of approaching warning sounds as purely functional or technical signals, the platform emphasizes their role in shaping public space, perception, and memory. Designed as both a research tool and an interpretive interface, Soundscapes of Warning contributes to current efforts in the digital humanities to critically engage with sound as a mediated and historically contingent form.