# Historical Ink: 19th Century Latin American Spanish Newspaper Corpus with LLM OCR Correction

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12838 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.12838/

## Key facts

- Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 1 of its 25 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 4 Jul 2024.

## Builds on (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [Spanish Pre-trained BERT Model and Evaluation Data](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2308.02976/) (2023)

## Built on by (most cited first, 2 of 2)

- [Historical Ink: Semantic Shift Detection for 19th Century Spanish](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.12852/) (2024)
- [Historical Ink: Exploring Large Language Models for Irony Detection in 19th-Century Spanish](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.22585/) (2025)

## Abstract (arXiv)

This paper presents two significant contributions: First, it introduces a novel dataset of 19th-century Latin American newspaper texts, addressing a critical gap in specialized corpora for historical and linguistic analysis in this region. Second, it develops a flexible framework that utilizes a Large Language Model for OCR error correction and linguistic surface form detection in digitized corpora. This semi-automated framework is adaptable to various contexts and datasets and is applied to the newly created dataset.