Name: Hybrid Workshop - Automated Text Recognition of Historical Sources: From convolutional neural networks to vision language models
Start: 2026-06-12T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-06-12T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Austrian Academy of Sciences

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

Friday, 12 June 2026 - 09:00

Monday, 8 June 2026
Tuesday, 9 June 2026
Wednesday, 10 June 2026
Thursday, 11 June 2026
Friday, 12 June 2026
09:00 Session 1
09:00 - 10:30
Room: 3rd floor, seminary rooms 2 and 3
Contributions

09:00 Auditing ATR Datasets: From CER to CERatorsaurus - Jan Odstrčilík (IMAFO, ÖAW) Martin Roček (IMAFO, ÖAW; Charles University)

09:30 Building HTR Models for an Underresourced Language: The Case of Medieval Czech - Anna Michalcová (IMAFO, ÖAW and Czech Language Institute CAS)

10:00 Reading the Stars with AI: Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) for Astronomical Text - Doris Vickers (Universität Wien)
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: 3rd floor, seminary rooms 2 and 3
11:00 Session 2
11:00 - 12:30
Room: 3rd floor, seminary rooms 2 and 3
Contributions

11:00 Open Source Layout Analysis for Sanskrit and Tibetan Manuscripts: First Experiences With Kraken on MUSICA - Patrick McAllister (IKGA, ÖAW)

11:30 HTR for Modelling Syriac Colophonology: Opportunities and Challenges - Ephrem Aboud Ishac (Institute for Medieval Research, Division of Byzantine Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences - Vienna)

12:00 Building a Digital Corpus of Armenian Manuscript Colophons: Training and Applying HTR Models for Classical Armenian - Lewis Read (IMAFO, ÖAW)
12:30 Lunch break (not provided)
Lunch break (not provided)
12:30 - 14:00
Room: 3rd floor, seminary rooms 2 and 3
14:00 Session 3
14:00 - 15:30
Room: 3rd floor, seminary rooms 2 and 3
Contributions

14:00 A Taste of Honey’: ATR and Early Medieval Glossed Manuscripts - Bernhard Bauer (Universität Graz)

14:30 It’s Philology All the Way Down: Htr and the Division of Labor in Textual Editing - David Smith (Northeastern University)

15:00 Deciphering Historical Documents With the Help of LLMs: New Perspectives in Greek Papyrology - Anna Dolganov (ÖAI)
15:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: 3rd floor, seminary rooms 2 and 3
16:00 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) Jan Odstrčilík (Institut für Mittelalterforschung, ÖAW) Günter Mühlberger (Universität Innsbruck)
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)
- Jan Odstrčilík (Institut für Mittelalterforschung, ÖAW)
- Günter Mühlberger (Universität Innsbruck)
16:00 - 17:30
Room: 3rd floor, seminary rooms 2 and 3