Programme

Scholarship Presentations Panel 1

Minority Scripts, Rare Languages, and the Limits of Generic Models

Wednesday 23 September 09:00 – 11:00

What happens when language or script lies outside the well-covered mainstream? All seven talks present strategies for low-resource and multilingual scenarios, directly answering the conference theme.

Contents

  1. i.

    The State of Syriac HTR on Transkribus: Benchmark Models and Workflows

  2. ii.

    Unlocking Burgenland Croatian: An Automatic Text Recognition Model on Transkribus

  3. iii.

    From Manuscript to Model for Early Latvian: Deciphering the Mixed-Script Hand of Andreas Getzel (1628)

  4. iv.

    Capturing variation in HTR models for Cyrillic early modern handwriting

  5. v.

    Lost in Translation, Found in Transkribus: Sino-Latin "Mashups" of the 1727 Propaganda Fide Archives

  6. vi.

    Collaborative Ground Truth Curation for Low-Resource Medieval Greek HTR