Leveraging GenAI for Segmenting and Labeling Centuries-old Technical Documents
This paper presents a novel approach to automating the curation and retrieval of 16th and 17th-century shipbuilding treatises by leveraging generative AI models like SAM2, Florence2, and ChatGPT, enhanced with specialized nautical ontologies, to overcome the challenges of segmenting and labeling scarce, domain-specific historical documents.