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Workshop ‘The Learnable Handwriter’ by Malamatenia Vlachou Efstathiou
May 22 @ 1:00 pm – May 23 @ 12:30 pm
Join us are for an innovative workshop led by PhD researcher Malamatenia Vlachou Efstathiou (IRHT-CNRS and ENPC) at the University of Antwerp. This workshop forms the introduction to using the Learnable Handwriter, a method that combines paleography and computational methods.
The workshop includes a talk and a hands-on session on the Learnable Handwriter, a computational method for interpretable and evidence-based paleographic analysis. The approach offers a way to study the shape of letters in historical handwriting using artificial intelligence in an interpretable manner that supports traditional scholarly practices. It enables the systematic and objective comparison of script styles, bringing together visual observation with measurable data. The Learnable Handwriter automatically learns typical letter shapes (prototypes) from manuscript images. These prototypes can be thought of as the average representation of a character in a chosen dataset, a sort of data-driven ideal alphabet. It provides qualitative and quantitative tools for comparison as well as graphical (visualization) tools for analysis. More information on the method can be found here.
The workshop will take place at the city campus of the University of Antwerp and takes place over the course of two days:
May 22: Introduction and technical preliminaries
- 13:00–14:30: Presentation of work/case studies by Malamatenia Vlachou Efstathiou
- 15:00–16:30: Installing the Learnable Handwriter and using datasets
May 23: How to use the prototypes for different palaeographical analyses
- 09:00–10:30: “Classification”: looking at the code, results, and limitations
- 11:00–12:30: Variability analysis
If you are interested in attending, please register by sending an e-mail to Caroline.Vandyck@uantwerpen.be