Programme

Lightning Talks Panel 1

Scripts of the World

Building Text Recognition Models for Diverse Languages and Writing Systems

Tuesday 22 September 10:00 – 11:15

All six talks show what happens when language or script sits outside the European mainstream — methodologically, linguistically, technically.

Contents

  1. i.

    Five accurate HTR models for different early modern Spanish calligraphies

  2. ii.

    HTR Models for Classical Nahuatl

  3. iii.

    Training a Model for the Automated Transliteration of Romanian Parish Registers Written in Cyrillic (19th-Century Transylvania): Difficulties and Current Progress

  4. iv.

    Being glocal with AI tools: the question of minority and endangered languages

  5. v.

    Training Braille Character Recognition Using Transkribus