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... starting a collaboration 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.
... starting a collaboration with Patrick J. Burns from NYU about Latin language models.
2023 |
CAIDAS Workshop in Würzburg, 6. - 8. Februar 2023. Vortrag mit Titel: Bullinger Digital - Texterkennung in einem reformatorischen Briefwechselkorpus |
Bullinger Digital: 500 Jahre Bullingerbriefwechsel in Zürich, 24. Februar 2023. Vortrag mit Titel: Bullinger Digital 2.0 |
DHd 2023 in Trier, 13. - 17. März 2023. Vortrag mit Titel: Bullingers Briefwechsel zugänglich machen: Stand der Handschriftenerkennung |
DaSCHCon on Digital Editions and Interoperabilityin Bern, 24. März 2023. Teilnahme. |
PhD Defense, May 26, Zürich. Passed. |
June 9, 2023: 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, 2023: Participation at the ADAPDA Workshop at ICDAR in San José, USA, with a paper about the adaptability of TrOCR for historical handwritings. |
2022 |
COMHUM 2022 in Lausanne, 9. - 10. Juni 2022. Vortrag mit Titel: Transformer-based HTR for Historical Documents. |
LREC 2022 in Marseille, 21. - 23. Juni 2022. Vortrag mit Titel: Evaluation of HTR models without Ground Truth Material |
DARIAH-CH Study Day in Mendrisio, 20. Oktober 2022. Vortrag mit Titel: 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 Zürich, 4. Oktober 2021. Leitung eines Workshops. |
2020 |
LREC 2020 in Marseille (cancelled due to the Corona Pandemic). Vortrag mit Titel: 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, 8 - 12 July. 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, 24 - 25 April. Slides (in German) |
2017 |
Sinergia: Kick-Off Workshop at the EPFL, 24 - 25 October. |
Digital Humanities Austria 2017 - Invited Talk a workshop about "building bridges", 4 - 6 December. Slides |
FS 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 |
FS 2018 | Teaching Assistant in Deep Learning in der Sprachtechnologie, with Simon Clematide |
FS 2018 | Teaching Assistant in Automated Media Content Analysis, with Gerold Schneider |
FS 2019 | Teaching Assistant in Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing 1, with Simon Clematide |
HS 2021 | Online teaching of the course Einführung in die Computerlinguistik at the University of Innsbruck |
FS 2023 | Teaching of the course Creation and Annotation of Linguistic Resources with George Yong |
Semester | Student, Thesis Type | Status | Topic (Thesis Title) |
Spring 2023 | Elina Stüssi, BA | ongoing | Part-of-Speech Tagging for Early Modern Latin Correspondence |
Autumn 2023 | Nikolaj Bauer, MA | ongoing | TBD |
Autumn 2023 | Olga Shpakova | ongoing | 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 |
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