Name: Ruse of reuse: Detecting text-similarity with AI in historical sources
Start: 2026-03-05T00:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-03-06T23:01:00+01:00
Location: Georg-Coch-Platz 2, Austrian Academy of Sciences

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

from Thursday, 5 March 2026 (00:00) to Friday, 6 March 2026 (23:01)

Monday, 2 March 2026
Tuesday, 3 March 2026
Wednesday, 4 March 2026
Thursday, 5 March 2026

09:45 Registration
Registration
09:45 - 10:00
Room: Seminary rooms 7 and 8, 5th Floor
10:00 Welcome: Welcome
Welcome
10:00 - 10:30
Room: Seminary rooms 7 and 8, 5th Floor
Contributions

10:00 Welcome and introduction
10:30 Session 1
10:30 - 12:00
Room: Seminary rooms 7 and 8, 5th Floor
Contributions

10:30 Visualising semantic similarity - Martin Roček (Faculty of Arts, Charles University; IMAFO, ÖAW) Jan Odstrčilík (IMAFO, ÖAW)

11:00 Tackling the Granularity Matching Problem in Hierarchical Texts with Multi-Resolution Embeddings - Jeffrey Witt (Loyola University Maryland)

11:30 What is Semantic Search Good for in Scholastic Corpora? - Jan Maliszewski (Wydział Filozofii, Uniwersytet Warszawski)
12:00 Lunch Break (lunch not provided)
Lunch Break (lunch not provided)
12:00 - 13:00
Room: Seminary rooms 7 and 8, 5th Floor
13:00 Session 2
13:00 - 14:30
Room: Seminary rooms 7 and 8, 5th Floor
Contributions

13:00 Automatic cataloguing of the Books of Hours. Textual unit identification and structural annotation - Svetlana Yatsyk (IRHT, CNRS)

13:30 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)

14:00 How to Align Medieval Prose Texts and Other Impossibilities - Gabriel Viehhauser (Universität Wien)
14:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
14:30 - 15:00
Room: Seminary rooms 7 and 8, 5th Floor
15:00 KIMAFO Lecture - From Physical Object to Structured Data: Building AI Pipelines in Cultural Heritage - William Mattingly (Yale University)
KIMAFO Lecture - From Physical Object to Structured Data: Building AI Pipelines in Cultural Heritage
- William Mattingly (Yale University)
15:00 - 17:00
Room: Seminary rooms 7 and 8, 5th Floor
Friday, 6 March 2026
09:00 Session 3
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Seminary rooms 7 and 8, 5th Floor
Contributions

09:00 Operationalising classical antiquity as a culture of reference(s) - Marin Le Bris (Radboud University)

09:30 A multimodal LLM for Ancient Greek: initial results and future perspectives - Anna Dolganov (ÖAI, ÖAW)

10:00 Data Augmentation for Capturing Variance in Manuscript Traditions - William Mattingly (Yale University)
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Seminary rooms 7 and 8, 5th Floor
11:00 Session 4
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Seminary rooms 7 and 8, 5th Floor
Contributions

11:00 Viral Bible. Biblical Trends Across the Middle Ages - Andrea Scalia (Universität Wien)

11:30 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)

11:50 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)
13:30 Closed workshop

13:30 - 18:00
Room: Seminary rooms 7 and 8, 5th Floor

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