Publications

Xie, Y., La Mela, M. & Andersson, D. E. (2026). “You have no class! Large Language Model Classification of Nineteenth Century Patents in Sweden, 1852 to 1914.” Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte/Economic History Yearbook, forthcoming.

La Mela, M., & Xie, Y. (2026). “Is There a Patent Genre? A Computational Text Analysis of French Patents, 1903-1940.” Long paper, C2S Workshop at Humanistica, 18-19 May.

Xie, Y., La Mela M. & Tell F. (2025). “Multimodal LLM-assisted Information Extraction from Historical Documents: The Case of Swedish Patent Cards (1945-1975) and ChatGPT.” Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications 7 (2), pp. 1–15.