Hybrid Workshop - Automated Text Recognition of Historical Sources: From convolutional neural networks to vision language models

Contribution List

4. Auditing ATR Datasets: From CER to CERatorsaurus

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

12/06/2026, 09:00

Session 1

2. Building HTR Models for an Underresourced Language: The Case of Medieval Czech

Anna Michalcová (IMAFO, ÖAW and Czech Language Institute CAS)

12/06/2026, 09:30

Session 1

5. Reading the Stars with AI: Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) for Astronomical Text

Doris Vickers (Universität Wien)

12/06/2026, 10:00

Session 1

6. Open Source Layout Analysis for Sanskrit and Tibetan Manuscripts: First Experiences With Kraken on MUSICA

Patrick McAllister (IKGA, ÖAW)

12/06/2026, 11:00

Session 2

7. HTR for Modelling Syriac Colophonology: Opportunities and Challenges

Ephrem Aboud Ishac (Institute for Medieval Research, Division of Byzantine Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences - Vienna)

12/06/2026, 11:30

Session 2

8. Building a Digital Corpus of Armenian Manuscript Colophons: Training and Applying HTR Models for Classical Armenian

Lewis Read (IMAFO, ÖAW)

12/06/2026, 12:00

Session 2

3. A Taste of Honey’: ATR and Early Medieval Glossed Manuscripts

Bernhard Bauer (Universität Graz)

12/06/2026, 14:00

Session 3

9. It’s Philology All the Way Down: Htr and the Division of Labor in Textual Editing

David Smith (Northeastern University)

12/06/2026, 14:30

Session 3

1. Deciphering Historical Documents With the Help of LLMs: New Perspectives in Greek Papyrology

Anna Dolganov (ÖAI)

12/06/2026, 15:00

Session 3

10. Round table: The Present and Future of Automated Text Recognition: Research Topic and Research Tool

Anna Dolganov (ÖAI), David Smith (Northeastern University), Georg Vogeler (Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Institut für Digitale Geisteswissenschaften), Günter Mühlberger (Universität Innsbruck), Jan Odstrčilík (Institut für Mittelalterforschung, ÖAW)

12/06/2026, 16:00