In the last two decades, mass digitization has dramatically changed the landscape of scholarly research. The ability to search digital transcriptions of sources for specific keywords saves valuable time, and scholars are no longer confined to archives and libraries if they wish to comb through a text.
Researchers explore machine learning to automate early modern text transcription ethically
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