Simulacra, or full-body reliquaries of corpi santi, have largely been overlooked in the discourse of the past century by the Church, the general public, and scholars. This work investigates two noteworthy cases among simulacra—two young individuals, St. Primogenita and St. Theodore—from Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Almada in Portugal. Based on a historical and analytical approach, the study examines the simula...
This article presents a study based on 18th-century Portuguese texts, focusing on the analysis of named entities to enhance their value for historical research. For that, an annotated corpus was developed using a primary source (the Parish Memories), which was transcribed, revised, and standardised. The distribution of named entities in the source was then analysed to reflect on the variations in the defined ca...
This paper discusses the impact of Portuguese variants in Large Language Models for the task of named entity recognition (NER) in specialised domains. The tests were made on a Brazilian Portuguese le gal and a European Portuguese historical corpora. The models taken into account are BERTimbau (PT-BR), Albertina (PT-PT and PT-BR), and XML-R (multilingual). The impact was more evident in the Portuguese historical...
Presentation of the CIDEHUS activity cycle "April 25: 50 Years of Freedom," which includes this exhibition. The initiative aims to foster research on this period and its impact. This exhibition, centered on a key historical figure, does not diminish the importance of other ongoing projects within the cycle, which highlight the contributions of anonymous individuals who also played a crucial role in the revoluti...
Refere o protocolo estabelecido para a publicação da obra e a importância da cooperação inter-institucional.; Este trabalho é financiado por fundos nacionais através da Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), no âmbito do projeto UIDB/00057/2020 https://doi.org/10.54499/UIDB/00057/2020; UIDB/04209/2020, UIDP/04209/2020, e LA/P/0132/2020
This study explores the cartographic reconstruction of 18th-century Portuguese parishes and municipalities, using Vila Viçosa as a case study. Based on the 1758 Parish Memories and other historical sources, it employs Natural Language Processing and QGIS to extract and map geographical and administrative data. The research highlights challenges such as overlapping or vanished parishes, particularly in rural are...
Simulacra, or full-body reliquaries of corpi santi, have largely been overlooked in the discourse of the past century by the Church, the general public, and scholars. This work investigates two noteworthy cases among simulacra—two young individuals, St. Primogenita and St. Theodore—from Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Almada in Portugal. Based on a historical and analytical approach, the study examines the simula...
Este artigo apresenta um estudo baseado em textos portugueses do século XVIII, através da análise de entidades nomeadas, tendo em vista potenciá-las para análise histórica. Para isso foi elaborado um corpus anotado, a partir de uma fonte (Memórias Paroquiais) transcrita, revista e normalizada. Posteriormente, realizou-se uma análise da distribuição das entidades nomeadas na fonte em apreço, para refletir sobre ...
This paper discusses the impact of Portuguese variants in Large Language Models for the task of named entity recognition (NER) in specialised domains. The tests were made on a Brazilian Portuguese legal and a European Portuguese historical corpora. The models taken into account are BERTimbau (PT-BR), Albertina (PT-PT and PT-BR), and XML-R (multilingual). The impact was more evident in the Portuguese historical ...
Memórias Paroquiais-Alentejo (1758) collects the responses of the parish priests from the largest region of Portugal (Alentejo) to a survey carried out by the Crown, asking about the state of the territory and its populations, and also about the effects of the earthquake 1755. This article discusses the transformative process from the manuscripts up to the processable digital stage. We described some individual...