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This paper systematically studies how temporal metadata can be structurally embedded into named entity recognition (NER) models for historical texts. Experiments with absolute and relative temporal representations injected via early or late fusion mechanisms show that late fusion strategies yield more robust performance on French and German historical datasets.
This paper presents the results of HIPE-2026, the third edition of the HIPE evaluation series, which focuses on temporally grounded person-place relation extraction from multilingual historical documents in French, German, and English. Seventeen participating teams were evaluated on predictive accuracy, computational efficiency, and cross-domain generalization.