Emily Kadens
@ek27.bsky.social
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Law professor at Northwestern University, historian of early modern law especially English equity courts and the history of commercial practice, fan of the archives, building an AI model to automate the transcription of English secretary hand.
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Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · Jul 30
The @transkribus.bsky.social "Egerton: English Secretary Hand" model is now public! app.transkribus.org/models/publi.... We have a website with sample transcriptions for different hands, information about our training conventions, and more: sites.northwestern.edu/egerton/
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Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · 16d
I have a simple lexicon of the words in my corpus of 16th and early 17th century words from primarily equity court material they we used to build our secretary hand transcription model.
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Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · 20d
I do enjoy filling out UK forms where I can declare that my address is in the county of Illinois.
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Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · 27d
AI can prep them for an oral exam even on something they have not read.
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Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · 27d
I teach law, and we require the students to read cases for every class. I cold call, so they do not know when they will be called on about a case. And this year I told them that one question on the exam will be a case analysis. I hope that is motivation to learn to read cases.
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Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · Aug 27
I love Fahrenheit. It is more sensitive than Celsius. At certain points in the temperature range there are 3 degrees Fahrenheit for every degree Celsius. That's a big range.
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Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · Aug 27
My Transkribus model "Egerton" can give you highly accurate transcriptions if this is a representative sample of the hand. For more info see: sites.northwestern.edu/egerton/
Egerton | An AI model for secretary hand
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Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · Aug 18
So glad it is working for you, Thiago!
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Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · Jul 31
Thanks, Neil!
Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · Jul 30
The @transkribus.bsky.social "Egerton: English Secretary Hand" model is now public! app.transkribus.org/models/publi.... We have a website with sample transcriptions for different hands, information about our training conventions, and more: sites.northwestern.edu/egerton/
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Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · Jul 16
Honestly, I could not be more surprised at how well Egerton is transcribing what I find to be the worst, most unreadable hand in the equity court files. I thought we would get to maybe 8% CER with this hand. Instead we are just over 3%. Egerton reads it better than I can!
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Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · Jul 14
Egerton is now ready for its public debut with a 2.89% average CER and over 1 million words. Once we have our informational website ready to go, we will submit it to @transkribus.bsky.social for publication.
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Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · Jul 6
Just pushed the button on running the Egerton model for the last time before we make it public. We hit 1.1 million words in the training data and 126,000 in the verification set. This has been three years in the making, but it's a great model and really accurate. @transkribus.bsky.social
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Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · Jun 16
Record keeping in 1592: "it is also well knowne vnto this Court that her maiesties recordes be in good saftie & not so kept as that they doe or can come vnto thandes of any her highnes Subiectes other then the officers vnto whose charge & safe custodie the same are comitted..." TNA E 112/27/241.
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Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · Jun 9
Posts about the Egerton secretary hand model can also be found @egerton.bsky.social
Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · Jun 9
Apparently the "Egerton" model really likes this hand. Less than 2% errors, and many of those errors were of punctuation or a doubled letter (Egerton's glitch). We should be making this secretary hand model public on @transkribus.bsky.social next month.
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Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · Jun 4
... and the Trawlers and Trinckers they do stand more vpp in the ffreshe water in the Ryver of Thames and they take Soles and playse and thorne backes and suceltes and buttes and such like fyshe." @thames21.bsky.social, @londonmuseum.bsky.social 3/3
Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · Jun 4
... for he sayeth the stalbotes stand vppon the Sea to take whightinges and sprattes and that the kedles otherwise Called Tymbers they stand within the Ryver of Theames and not vppon the Sea as Stalbotes do and they take Sprattes and whightinges also ... 2/3
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Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · Jun 4
From the deposition of a Middlesex fisherman in 1595, in a suit in Exchequer involving a customary fee alleged to have been paid by Thames fisherman (TNA E 133/8/1176): "he sayeth there is greate difference betwene Stalbottes and keddles Trawlers and Trynckers ... 1/3
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Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · May 26
E 133/3/381: "Charnocke said to Barker, 'what pratinge makest thou for ye Charges of a Cote, & the Apparell thow chargest me withall. ffor I coulde (sayd Charnocke) wype thy nose of all the lande thou haste' with many other Sharpe woordes wherewith the said Barker helde his peace and sayd nothinge."
Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · May 22
Thanks to Northwestern Pritzker Law for writing about the Egerton secretary hand model on @transkribus.bsky.social
news.law.northwestern.edu/decoding-the...
Decoding the Past: Professor Emily Kadens uses Artificial Intelligence to bring 16th-Century Law to Life - Northwestern Pritzker School of Law News
What happens when 16th-century legal documents meet artificial intelligence? Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law’s Edna B. and Ednyfed H. Williams Memorial Professor and Vice Dean Emily Kad...
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Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · May 14
If you study the early modern history of London's streets, houses, inns, etc., the Chancery depositions (TNA C 24) are a rich source. The @transkribus.bsky.social "Egerton" secretary hand model found this interesting discussion of a house in the Poultrie in an interrogatory in C 24/249 box 1.
Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · May 9
You could also get an assist from the "Egerton" secretary hand model on @transkribus.bsky.social which is available on request (from me) now and publicly available later in the summer. It handled this document with over 97% accuracy.
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Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · Mar 31
"... the defendant dyd not strike any stroke in that affray
nor dyd se any stroke stryken by any persone ..." We're training out @transkribus.bsky.social model "Egerton" to read this hand. Should be near 90% accuracy after the next model run.
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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · Mar 24
‘Okay which one of you accidentally added Robert Cecil to the chat?’
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Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · Mar 25
Didn't Egerton write something critical about Coke's report of Calvin's Case in "Lord Chancellor Egerton's Observations on the Lord Coke's Reports"?