The first day concerns the Error Correction of HTR output for Greek papyri and Byzantine manuscripts, using the HTREC 2022 challenge as a reference point. Invited speakers and selected participants will elaborate. The second day regards Error Correction for Historical Sources, including more languages, genres, and materials. Invited speakers will elaborate and the future of the HTREC challenge will be discussed.
9:00 (CET) GREETINGS
Franz Fischer (Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities, Department of Humanities, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)
John Pavlopoulos (Athens University of Economics and Business, Department of Informatics)
9:30 "Evaluating the need for cleaning HTR transcriptions for the purpose of stemmatical analysis" by Elpida Perdiki (Department of Greek Philology, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece)
10:00 "OCR4all v1.0 - Insights and Prospects" by Christian Reul (University of Würzburg)
10:30 Thibault Clérice (École nationale des Chartes - PSL)
11.00 DISCUSSION
11:30 Invited HTREC participant presentation by Stepan Shabalin
12:00 Invited HTREC participant presentation by Konstantina Liagkou and Emmanouil Papadatos
12:30 Benjamin Kiessling (eScripta team, École pratique des hautes études- PSL)
13:00 DISCUSSION
13:30 LUNCH
16:30 "The Vocal Project on the Road" at Instituto Canossiano San Trovaso by Mata Kourti (Independent Artist)
20:00 Speakers' dinner
The Autumn Full Moon at Ishiyama
ca. 1832
Utagawa Hiroshige
9:00 OPENING WORDS: Ewa Machotka (Stockholm University)
9:05 "Automating the Detection and Correction of Errors in HTRed Text" by Vasiliki Kougia (University of Vienna)
9:20 "Presenting the Research Environment for Ancient Documents (READ)" by Isabelle Marthot-Santaniello (University of Basel), Olga Serbaeva Saraogi (University of Zurich), and Steve White (Ca’Foscari University of Venice)
9:50 "OCR and Crowdsourced Editing in the Chinese Text Project" by Donald Sturgeon (Durham University)
10:05 DISCUSSION
10:20 “AI Transcription Tools and Pre-Modern Japanese Texts: What is gained and what is lost?” by James Morris (Waseda University)
10:35 "HTR Error Correction: An Overview of the recent HTREC challenge" by John Pavlopoulos (Athens University of Economics and Business)
10:50 “Mapping Japanese Landscape Prints with NLP: Challenges and Solutions” by Ewa Machotka (Stockholm University)
11:05 Discussion and concluding remarks
11:30 END
12:30 Lunch
15:00 Visit to the Venice Biennale (optional)