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Ruse of reuse: Detecting text-similarity with AI in historical sources

5–6 Mar 2026
Georg-Coch-Platz 2, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Europe/Vienna timezone

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  1. 1. Registration
    05/03/2026, 09:45
  2. 2. Welcome and introduction
    05/03/2026, 10:00
  3. 3. Visualising semantic similarity
    Martin Roček (Faculty of Arts, Charles University; IMAFO, ÖAW), Jan Odstrčilík (IMAFO, ÖAW)
    05/03/2026, 10:30
  4. 4. Tackling the Granularity Matching Problem in Hierarchical Texts with Multi-Resolution Embeddings
    Jeffrey Witt (Loyola University Maryland)
    05/03/2026, 11:00

    Scholastic corpora present distinctive challenges for recommender systems because of their deeply nested textual hierarchies. In such contexts, identifying related texts is insufficient; recommendations must also operate at an appropriate level of granularity, matching the user’s current focus without being overly narrow or excessively broad. This talk addresses the granularity matching...

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  5. 5. What is Semantic Search Good for in Scholastic Corpora?
    Jan Maliszewski (Wydział Filozofii, Uniwersytet Warszawski)
    05/03/2026, 11:30

    Given the highly intertextual character of scholastic literature, locating the exact source of auctoritates – that is, the authoritative statements commonly evoked in medieval quaestiones – is both a basic, though notoriously demanding, editorial task and an indispensable precondition for more elaborate research. Most available computational solutions aiding this task map direct lexical...

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  6. 7. Automatic cataloguing of the Books of Hours. Textual unit identification and structural annotation
    Svetlana Yatsyk (IRHT, CNRS)
    05/03/2026, 13:00

    The talk will deal with rule-based approaches, which allow us to establish a baseline that will be further used to assess the benefits of the LLMs (both in detection quality and computational cost).

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  7. 8. Does AI break the chains of Prometheus? Or how AI can advance the analytical possibilities of the Latin Text Archive (LTA)
    Tim Geelhaar (Goethe Universität)
    05/03/2026, 13:30

    Artificial Intelligence has long played a role in Digital Humanities. Since the 2000s, methods using Machine Learning and Deep Learning have been tested and applied successfully, especially for tasks like reusing and comparing texts. The Latin Text Archive (LTA), which is a platform designed for historical semantic analysis of medieval Latin texts, once offered such features. However, due to...

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  8. 9. How to Align Medieval Prose Texts and Other Impossibilities
    Gabriel Viehhauser (Universität Wien)
    05/03/2026, 14:00

    The lecture takes its starting point from a concrete practical example, namely the planned digital edition of “Der Heiligen Leben, Redaktion”, a late medieval collection of legends about saints. This collection exists in two different text versions, created in quick succession, whose differences are relevant for the cultural-historical context of the legends. Since the texts are in prose, it...

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  9. 6. KIMAFO Lecture - From Physical Object to Structured Data: Building AI Pipelines in Cultural Heritage
    William Mattingly (Yale University)
    05/03/2026, 15:00
  10. 10. Operationalising classical antiquity as a culture of reference(s)
    Marin Le Bris (Radboud University)
    06/03/2026, 09:00
  11. 11. A multimodal LLM for Ancient Greek: initial results and future perspectives
    Anna Dolganov (ÖAI, ÖAW)
    06/03/2026, 09:30

    In the fall of 2025, the Decoding Antiquity project was launched by Anna Dolganov in collaboration with Mistral AI and Reply AI with the aim of building advanced AI systems for ancient languages. We have started with a multimodal LLM for Ancient Greek, and our next goal will be to train a Vision Language model capable of transcribing hundreds of thousands of undeciphered Ancient Greek papyri....

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  12. 12. Data Augmentation for Capturing Variance in Manuscript Traditions
    William Mattingly (Yale University)
    06/03/2026, 10:00
  13. 13. Viral Bible. Biblical Trends Across the Middle Ages
    Andrea Scalia (Universität Wien)
    06/03/2026, 11:00
  14. 14. Text Reuse and the Social Life of Early Medieval Canon Law
    Sven Meeder (The Social Life of Early Medieval Normative Texts (SOLEMNE) project, Radboud University), Gleb Schmidt (The Social Life of Early Medieval Normative Texts (SOLEMNE) project, Radboud University)
    06/03/2026, 11:30
  15. 15. Tracing the Tradition of the Roman Conquest of Jerusalem in Latin Texts (c.400- c.1300): A Database with c.2500 Entries
    Alexander Marx (IMAFO, ÖAW), Peter Andorfer (ACDH, ÖAW)
    06/03/2026, 11:50

    My current project investigates how the Roman conquest of Jerusalem (70 CE) was deployed in medieval Latin texts between c.400 and c.1300. This includes building up a database that catalogues each occurrence that I can find, counting at the moment c.2200 entries, and eventually probably c.2500 entries. Deploying the Roman conquest was both an intense textual engagement with biblical references...

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