Hier ein Hinweis auf eine interessante Fortbildung, die am 21. Oktober 2025 zur Mittagszeit online und in Präsenz stattfindet:
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DIGITAL HUMANITIES BROWN BAG LUNCH
Using AI to extract structured data from complex
historical documents
In his talk entitled “Using AI to extract structured data from complex historical
documents”, Wolfgang Göderle will give insights into his ongoing projects that
leverage cutting-edge AI methods to improve historical document analysis.
His team develops machine learning models to recognise and extract complex
data structures in a high-value historical primary source of Austrian history, the Schematismus. This allows for reliable OCR and information retrieval despite the challenging historical page layouts.
The investigation has already provided hitherto unnoticed insights into a large-
scale historical printed source. In his talk, he will show how such technical developments help advance genuinely historical research questions through tailored optimization of current state of the art machine learning methods.
Wolfgang Göderle is Professor for Computational Humanities at Universität
Passau, Research Group Leader at UniGraz and Researcher at MPI GEA.
The Digital Humanities Brown Bag Lunch
series (DH BBL) is a monthly meeting or-
ganized by the MPIWG Digital Humanities
Team. It offers talks and workshops for
researchers in-house to discuss and ex-
change experiences about using digital
methods for historical and humanities re-
search, a field broadly encompassed by the
term „Digital Humanities“.