Manually Verified Polish Civil-Register Transcriptions and Weak Token Labels

Grzegorz Gałęzowski

doi:10.5334/johd.628

Manually Verified Polish Civil-Register Transcriptions and Weak Token Labels

Journal of Open Humanities Data

Volume 12 (2026): Issue 1

By: Grzegorz Gałęzowski

Open Access

|Sep 2026

Abstract

Polish civil registers are formulaic, but computational processing can be hard to inspect. This paper documents 100 manually checked TXT page transcriptions from Kraśnik with parallel PAGE-XML workflow exports, provenance, checksums, weak lexical categories, and a 480-row audit. Page-level files preserve layout and provenance; documentation separates descriptive labels from evaluation evidence. Scripts support classical and simulated quantum-kernel demonstrations. The resource aids teaching, error tracing, and evaluation design; purposive sampling, lexical repetition, absent scans, and non-contextual labels preclude representative, full-NER, or quantum-advantage claims.

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