Summary of Carlos Alonso: Inteligencia artificial aplicada a los archivos históricos. El proyecto Carabela

Summary of "Carlos Alonso: Inteligencia artificial aplicada a los archivos históricos. El proyecto Carabela"

This virtual conference, organized by the General Archives of the Nation of Murcia and presented by historian and archaeologist Carlos Alonso Villalobos, focuses on the application of artificial intelligence (AI) to historical archives, specifically through the Carabela Project. The project aims to facilitate access, research, and management of handwritten historical documents, particularly those related to underwater archaeological heritage such as historical shipwrecks.

Main Ideas and Concepts

Notable Quotes

15:07 — « We live in a very good moment in which there are indeed technologies that are capable of working with data at time scales far below, infinitely inferior to human capacity, and at the same time, artificial intelligence allows you to move forward towards making machines think. »
67:30 — « This is a bit of a corset with atrocious clothing, yes, but the system already has a deep learning of the Castilian graphics from the century, which is the first simile, that already has that deep wardrobe that exists of character recognition. »
74:01 — « Here what we are looking for is the help to the probabilistic index, that is to say the help that tells us what word possibilities these documents have, and that is what gives us all this search power from metadata to classify the documents. »
79:51 — « It allows you to do truncation, to brush the rabbits with terms with proximity, with eliminating one, let's say, of those in the digital press. It allows you to do thematic searches without you knowing anything about that documentation and locates it. »
82:03 — « This team from the Polytechnic University of Valencia is a world pioneer in this tool in terms of quality of results. »

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