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Cudden Davis Ledger Project Announcement
Thursday, August 06, 2026 in Bonny Broom News
I want to share one of the many exciting projects we’ve worked on this summer! We’ve partnered with Dr. Holly Shulman at the University of Virginia and the The Montpelier Foundation to explore the Cudden Davis Ledger. How much did it cost James …
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US Patent Announcement
Tuesday, July 07, 2026 in Bonny Broom News
I am excited to announce that Bonny Broom’s semantic search technology, evaluation process, and transcription quality-check system was issued a US Patent today! Our full statement is linked here. I am proud of the work that our small team has …
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Exploring new documents and open-weight LLMs
Friday, June 19, 2026 in Bonny Broom News
After a few weeks off, we are back at it with some new historical materials! This week, I started working with historical ledgers. I specialized in colonial American newspapers, court records, and government documents during undergraduate, so this is …
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How do we measure the accuracy of search results?
Friday, May 29, 2026 in Bonny Broom News
This week, I started building our judgements list for Videlicet. Judgement lists record the pages that are relevant or irrelevant in a given search. They will be used in the near future to test the accuracy of our semantic search engine. In our move …
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Improving semantic search
Friday, May 22, 2026 in Bonny Broom News
Videlicet has changed a lot in the past few months! This week, we continued fine-tuning our searching, experimenting with Claude skills, and building Python notebooks. We have an evaluation process to provide feedback for computer-generated …
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Welcome To the Bonny Broom Blog
Tuesday, May 19, 2026 in Bonny Broom News
Welcome to the Bonny Broom Research blog! Here we’ll share updates about Videlicet™, research highlights, and news about our work making history searchable. My last semester as an undergraduate is officially over! Finals have been turned in, …