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

Session

Session 1

5 Mar 2026, 10:30

Seminary rooms 7 and 8, 5th Floor (Georg-Coch-Platz 2, Austrian Academy of Sciences)

3. Visualising semantic similarity

Martin Roček (Faculty of Arts, Charles University; IMAFO, ÖAW), Jan Odstrčilík (IMAFO, ÖAW)

05/03/2026, 10:30

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...

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...