{"id":2054,"date":"2025-05-14T13:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T11:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/platformdh.uantwerpen.be\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=2054"},"modified":"2025-05-14T14:09:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T12:09:13","slug":"workshop-the-learnable-handwriter","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/platformdh.uantwerpen.be\/index.php\/event\/workshop-the-learnable-handwriter\/","title":{"rendered":"Workshop ‘The Learnable Handwriter’ by Malamatenia Vlachou Efstathiou"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Join us are for an innovative workshop led by PhD researcher Malamatenia Vlachou Efstathiou<\/strong> (IRHT-CNRS and ENPC) at the University of Antwerp. This workshop forms the introduction to using the Learnable Handwriter<\/em>, a method that combines paleography and computational methods.<\/p>\n

The workshop includes a talk and a hands-on session on the\u00a0Learnable Handwriter<\/em>, 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.\u00a0The Learnable Handwriter<\/em>\u00a0automatically learns typical letter shapes (prototypes<\/em>) from manuscript images. These prototypes can be thought of as the average representation\u00a0of 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)\u00a0tools for analysis. More information on the method can be found\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The workshop will take place at the city campus of the University of Antwerp and takes place over the course of two days:<\/p>\n

May 22<\/strong>: Introduction and technical preliminaries<\/p>\n