Automating annotation and classification of palaeographic types in ancient Sicilian inscriptions
Year: 2026
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Extended abstract accepted for the International Workshop on Computational Paleography (IWCP 2026, 4th edition), 4 September 2026, Vienna, Austria, a workshop of ICDAR 2026, presented as a poster with a flash presentation. Published here for open access and citation. Workshop Organisers: Isabelle Marthot-Santaniello, Universität Basel, Basel, Switzerland Hussein Mohammed, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany Workshop page: IWCP 2026 : CSMC : University of Hamburg We present preliminary results of an experimental project ran between the Faculty of Classics and Digital Scholarship @ Oxford in February – May 2026. Our starting point was the palaeography module of the Crossreads ERC project (Horizon 2020 Grant agreement No. 885040), a collaborative research project on the inscriptions of Ancient Sicily and their study through linguistic, palaeographic and archaeometric analysis.
Institution: University of Oxford
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7204085495