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%T A Survey of the Digitisation of German Newspapers in interwar Lithuania (1918–1940)
%A Plaušinaitytė, Lina
%A Zinsmeister, Heike
%Y Ogrodniczuk, Maciej
%Y Osenova, Petya
%Y Wissik, Tanja
%S Proceedings of the First Workshop on Creating Interoperable Corpora of Historical Newspapers
%D 2026
%8 May
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Palma de Mallorca, Spain
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[A Survey of the Digitisation of German Newspapers in interwar Lithuania (1918–1940)](https://aclanthology.org/2026.pressmint-1.11/) (Plaušinaitytė & Zinsmeister, PressMint 2026)

• A Survey of the Digitisation of German Newspapers in interwar Lithuania (1918–1940) (Plaušinaitytė & Zinsmeister, PressMint 2026)

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• Lina Plaušinaitytė and Heike Zinsmeister. 2026. A Survey of the Digitisation of German Newspapers in interwar Lithuania (1918–1940). In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Creating Interoperable Corpora of Historical Newspapers, pages 65–71, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. Association for Computational Linguistics.