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Member of the DSI Community Libraries.
Member and co-[founder|coordinator] of the DSI Community Digital Humanities.
Member of the working group Editions of DARIAH-CH.
Member of the Zentrum Altertumswissenschaften Zürich (ZAZH).
Member of digital humanities im deutschsprachigen raum (DHd).
Member of SSHOC-CH.
Please also look at the Data page for current and past projects' datasets, models, and code.
... starting a collaboration with the Department of History at the UZH.
... collaborating with the Chair of Systems Desgin at ETH and the Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften to track the spread of ideas in correspondence data during the Reformation.
... collaborating with Patrick J. Burns from NYU about Latin language models.
2024 |
EACL in Malta, March 18-22. Poster presentation of our paper about employing GPT for POS tagging of 16th-century Latin. |
Open Up Digital Editions Conference in Zürich, January 24-26. Poster presentation entitled: Lessons Learnt from Bullinger Digital. See the book of abstracts. |
Invited talk (online) at the South African Center for Digital Language Resources. Title: Innovating Historical Scholarship: The Bullinger Digital Project. January 31, 2024, 10am SAST. |
2023 |
CAIDAS Workshop in Würzburg, February 6-8. Presentation entitled: Bullinger Digital - Texterkennung in einem reformatorischen Briefwechselkorpus. |
Bullinger Digital: 500 Jahre Bullingerbriefwechsel in Zurich, February 24. Presentation entitled: Bullinger Digital 2.0. |
DHd 2023 in Trier, March 13-17. Presentation entitled: Bullingers Briefwechsel zugänglich machen: Stand der Handschriftenerkennung. |
DaSCHCon on Digital Editions and Interoperabilityin Bern, March 24. Participation. |
PhD Defense, May 26, Zürich. Passed. |
June 9: Invited talk at the "Text Recognition and Cultural Heritage" workshop organised by DIZH about the state-of-the-art of handwritten text recognition in the project Bullinger Digital at the Zurich States Archive. |
August 25: Participation at the ADAPDA Workshop at ICDAR in San José, USA, with a paper about the adaptability of TrOCR for historical handwritings. |
Transkriptionen zeitgemäss mit Transkribus. October 4, Zentralbibliothek Zürich. Workshop organiser. |
Brücken bauen: Einblicke in die Vermittlung von ATR an Geisteswissenschaftler. November 29, Zentralbibliothek Zürich. Invited talk at PATT workshop. |
2022 |
COMHUM 2022 in Lausanne, June 9-10. Presentation entitled: Transformer-based HTR for Historical Documents. |
LREC 2022 in Marseille, June 21-23. Presentation entitled: Evaluation of HTR models without Ground Truth Material. |
DARIAH-CH Study Day in Mendrisio, October 20. Presentation entitled: Bullinger Digital – The Transformation and Expansion of an Analogue Edition into the Digital Age. |
2021 |
Einführung in Theorie und Praxis der OCR mit neuronalen Netzwerken in Zurich, October 4. Workshop organiser. |
2020 |
LREC 2020 in Marseille (cancelled due to the Corona Pandemic). Presentation at conference. Paper title: How Much Data Do You Need? About the Creation of a Ground Truth for Black Letter and the Effectiveness of Neural OCR. |
2019 |
Digital Humanities 2019 - Presentation at Conference, July 8-12. Title: Improving OCR of Black Letter in Historical Newspapers: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of HTR Models on Low-Resolution Images. Slides. |
2018 |
Vom Diarium zum Digitarium - Invited Talk at Workshop, April 24-25. Slides (in German). |
2017 |
Sinergia: Kick-Off Workshop at the EPFL, October 24-25. |
Digital Humanities Austria 2017 - Invited Talk at a workshop about "Building Bridges", December 4-6. Slides. |
AS 2016 | Teaching Assistant in Einführung in die Multilinguale Textanalyse, with Martin Volk |
SS 2017 | Teaching Assistant in Semantische Rollen und relationale Fakten, with Simon Clematide |
SS 2018 | Teaching Assistant in Sentimentanalyse und Media Monitoring, with Simon Clematide |
AS 2018 | Teaching Assistant in Deep Learning in der Sprachtechnologie, with Simon Clematide |
AS 2018 | Teaching Assistant in Automated Media Content Analysis, with Gerold Schneider |
SS 2019 | Teaching Assistant in Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing 1, with Simon Clematide |
AS 2021 | Online teaching of the course Einführung in die Computerlinguistik at the University of Innsbruck |
SS 2023 | Teaching of the course Creation and Annotation of Linguistic Resources with George Yong |
SS 2024 | Teaching of the course Creation and Annotation of Linguistic Resources with Martin Volk |
Semester | Student, Thesis Type | Status | Topic (Thesis Title) |
Spring 2023 | Elina Stüssi, BA | done | Part-of-Speech Tagging for Early Modern Latin Correspondence |
Autumn 2023 | Nikolaj Bauer, MA | ongoing | Exploring the Capabilities of LLMs in Supporting Scholarly Editions |
Autumn 2023 | Olga Shpakova | done | Dokumentbasierter LLM-gestützter Chatbot als Rechtsassistenz: Entwicklung einer chat-basierten API für den Zugriff auf juristische Datenbank. |
Autumn 2023 | Yung-Hsin Chen, MA | ongoing | Improvements in the Adaptation of TrOCR Models for Non-English OCR/HTR |
Spring 2024 | Zejie Guo, MA | ongoing | Faithful Image Generation of Historical Events via Prompt Engineering |
Spring 2024 | Ülkü Karagöz | ongoing | Historical Image Generation |
I served as a reviewer/on a PC for the following conferences/workshops:
Conference/Journal/Event | # of reviews |
---|---|
ACL 2022 | 2 |
EMNLP 2022 -- Track: Multilinguality | 2 |
ACL 2023 -- Track: Resources and Evaluation | 5 |
EMNLP 2023 | 5 |
EMNLP 2023 Industry Track | TBD |
Begriffe der Digital Humanities by ZfdG | 1 |
DHd 2024 | 5 |
ACL ARR 2023 August | 2 |
ACL ARR 2023 October | 3 |
Digital Humanities Quarterly, October 2023 cycle | 2 |
ACL ARR 2023 December | 3 |
Journal of Open Humanities Data, February cycle |
1 |
ACL ARR 2024 February | 4 |
ACL ARR 2024 June | 2 |
MDPI Journal 'Heritage' | 1 |
Total | 37 |