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Text Technologies for Manuscript Cultures

Using emerging technologies to transform research, teaching and understanding of pre-modern evidence

Text Technologies for Manuscript Cultures

This research group explores how machine learning and AI approaches can be leveraged for analyzing the textual culture of the pre-modern world.

Launched in 2022 with the Machine Learning and Future of Philology Symposium, this group is a collaboration between CDH and MARBAS (Manuscript, Rare Book and Archive Studies).

We are particularly interested in techniques for handwritten text recognition (HTR) for scripts and languages such as Arabic, Hebrew, Syriac, Latin, and Ancient and Byzantine Greek. We run workshops and host events to build skills and foster a dynamic network of scholars both at Princeton and beyond.

Key Princeton partners include the Geniza Lab, the Logion Project, and faculty and students from History, Medieval Studies, and the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies.

The group welcomes Princeton affiliates from all disciplines who are interested in exploring technologies for manuscripts, early print and other pre-modern evidence. Please contact CDH postdoc Chrstine Roughan for more information or to get involved.

Related projects

Bringing HTR to the HPC

Customizing the eScriptorium HTR software for use on Princeton high performance computing hardware

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Princeton Open HTR Initiative

Establishing research infrastructures to support Princeton use of HTR for manuscripts and archival documents in a variety of languages and scripts

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Segmenting Paratextual Material in Arabic Scientific Manuscripts

Computational methods for classifying and analyzing visual aspects of the manuscript folio

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Related events

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Dec. 9: Machine Learning and the Future of Philology

4 December 2022

Join the CDH and MARBAS for a hybrid symposium on Friday, December 9.

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Related posts

Machine Learning & the Future of Philology: A Student Perspective

10 January 2023

Kurt Lemai ’25 participated in the recent symposium, presenting as part of a panel called “Reading an Unreadable Sermon: AI Text Recognition in the Early Colonial Period.”

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Act I for Steven Feng ’27 🎭

6 August 2024

Steven explored Greek tragedy at the DH for Hellenic Studies Institute.

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