Automatic Thematic Indexing of Large Literary Corpora: A Machine Learning Approach to Voltaire's Complete Works
Thematic indexing -- the practice of assigning structured conceptual labels to sections of text -- is essential to scholarly access in large-scale literary and historical editions, yet it remains a largely manual, labour-intensive process. This paper explores the application of machine learning to automatic thematic indexing, using two substantial sub-corpora of the Complete Works of Voltaire as a test case: the Essai sur les mœurs et l'esprit des nations and the Questions sur l'Encyclopédie. The task is framed as a multi-label classification problem, in which a model must assign the set of in
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