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: Georg-Coch-Platz 2, 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 (Institute for Medieval Research (IMAFO), Austrian Academy of Sciences) Martin Roček (Institute for Medieval Research (IMAFO), Austrian Academy of Sciences; Charles University)

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

10:00 Reading the Stars with AI: Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) for Astronomical Text - Doris Vickers (University of Vienna)
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 (Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia (IKGA), Austrian Academy of Sciences)

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

12:00 Building a Digital Corpus of Armenian Manuscript Colophons: Training and Applying HTR Models for Classical Armenian - Lewis Read (Institute for Medieval Research (IMAFO), Austrian Academy of Sciences)
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 (University of 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15:00 Deciphering Historical Documents With the Help of LLMs: New Perspectives in Greek Papyrology - Anna Dolganov (Austrian Archaeological Institute (OeAI), Austrian Academy of Sciences)
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 (Austrian Archaeological Institute (OeAI), Austrian Academy of Sciences) David Smith (Northeastern University) Georg Vogeler (Department of Digital Humanities, University of Graz) Jan Odstrčilík (Institute for Medieval Research (IMAFO), Austrian Academy of Sciences) Günter Mühlberger (University of Innsbruck)
Round table: The Present and Future of Automated Text Recognition: Research Topic and Research Tool
- Anna Dolganov (Austrian Archaeological Institute (OeAI), Austrian Academy of Sciences)
- David Smith (Northeastern University)
- Georg Vogeler (Department of Digital Humanities, University of Graz)
- Jan Odstrčilík (Institute for Medieval Research (IMAFO), Austrian Academy of Sciences)
- Günter Mühlberger (University of Innsbruck)
16:00 - 17:30
Room: 3rd floor, seminary rooms 2 and 3