Philtag 13 (english)

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==<philtag n="13"/>==
From 25. - 26. February 2016, the 13th Philtag workshop was hosted by KALLIMACHOS. Würzburg University´s well-established conference series concerning the use of digital methods in the humanties offers an overwiew as well as an opportunity for scientific exchange about current trends, projects and technologies in the growing field of Digital Humanities. 
=Conference report=
==Conference report==
===Day 1: OCR===
A key subject at the 13th philtag were OCR methods, which were presented, discussed and evaluated on the first day of the 
conventention. After the greeting by Dr. Hans-Günter Schmidt and a short introduction into the KALLIMACHOS project, the first lecture by 
Dr. Uwe Springmann (CIS München) covered the topic OCR of incunabula. Although these texts were viewed as not suitable for automated text recognition thus far, recently, new methods and approaches based on artificial neural networks have emerged. Subsequently, Dirk Wintergrün (MPIWG Berlin) highlighted the importance of OCR methods for the research of academic heritage transmission and capturing of scientific records. Elisa Herrmann (OCR-D Wolfenbüttel) presented the new coordinative project OCR-D, which intends to optimize the recognition of german printings from 16th to 19th century and to prepare new DFG funding lines. Dr. Syed Saqib Bukhari (DFKI Kaiserslautern) granted a glance at the new OCR-System OCRopus++ developed at the DFKI, which offer abn anticipaed recognitio rate of 98% and higher for historical printings. Afterwards, Dr. Josep Lladós (CVC Barcelona) concluded the first block of lectures with a report about the automated extraction of written information from historical documents, marriage records and other genealogical sources and the utilization of the captured data for the reconstruction of historical social networks.
 link= | alt= Dr. Uwe Springmann and Dr. Hans-Günther Schmidt
 link= | alt= Presentation by Elisa Herrmanns 
 link= | alt= Presentation by Josep Llados
The afternoon program consisted of an OCR-themed interactive workshop: The workflows and tools used and developed by KALLIMACHOS were not only presented, but the audience also got the opportunity to try them out hands-on. First, Felix Kirchner and Marco Dittrich discussed the requirements and challenges of image capturing and preprocessing and the specifics of the fonts, types and glyphs used in historical documents. Prof. Dr. Frank Puppe and Christian Reul (Chair of Computer Science VI Würzburg) presented the latest breakthroughs regarding the automated segmentation of text blocks. Benedikt Budig 
(Chair of Computer Science I Würzburg) presented Glyph Miner, a the self-developed tool for the simplified extraktion of glyphs, which was met with excitement by the participants. Guided by the student assistants Phillip Beckenbauer und Maximilian Nöth, the attendees were able to discover the workings of Aletheia und Franken++, which serve as preprocessing tools for glyph inventories that are used as training data for the Tesseract OCR system. The workshop ended with the creation and automated validation of OCR texts.
To conclude the evening, all participants were invited for dinner at the local restaurant Bürgerspital, where the impressions of the first conference day (and more) were discussed lively and und numerous new contacts could be established. 
 link= | alt=The audience
 link= | alt= Presentation by Benedikt Budig
 link= | alt= Presentation by Benedikt Budig
===Day 2: Textmining===
The second day treated recent projects in the digital humanities at Würzburg university with an emphasis on textmining procedures. Stefan Evert (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) illustrated the statistical basis provided by Burrow´s Delta, the predominant stilometric measurement for authorship attribution. Subsequently, Andreas Büttner presented the KALLIMACHOS subproject Identification of translators, where Delta is used to identify previously anonymous translators of arabic philosophical texts in the 12th century. Daniel Schlör, Stefanie Popp and Christof Schöch (Junior research group CLiGS) outlined the recognition of direct speech in french novels. Since these usually contain no quotation marks, direct speech has to be detected using other features. To this end, the project group uses methods of machine learning. Markus Krug presented the research methods and first results of the KALLIMACHOS subproject Affectation of reades towards fictional characters. Here, characters in novels are automatically identified and annotated. The recovered information is then used to visualize character networks. To this end, not only the names of characters, but also coreferences, f.i. in the form of pronouns, have to be identified. Finally, Isabella Reger (KALLIMACHOS subproject Narrative techniques) explained how the atmospheric flow in a novel can be recognized as part of a sentiment analysis and how these information can be used to discern literary genres.
===Conclusion===
Considering the attendance of up to 80 subsribers, the intense and focussed working atmosphere and the overall positive feedback, the 13th <philtag> has proven to be a great success. We would like to give our sincere thanks to our lecturers and to our audience as well. We are looking forward for the next installment of the workshop in 2017.
=Schedule=
==Day 1: OCR==
ca. 10:00 	Registration und greeting
10:15-12:30	Lectures
10:15-10:30	Hans-Günter Schmidt: KALLIMACHOS and the PhilTag, organisational information
10:30-10:50	Uwe Springmann (CIS München): OCR von Inkunabeln: Herausforderungen und Herangehensweisen
10:50-11:10	Dirk Wintergrün (MPIWG Berlin): Von Handarbeit zur Massenware - OCR als Grundlage für die Forschung in der Wissenschaftsgeschichte
11:10-11:30	Elisa Herrmann (OCR-D Wolfenbüttel): OCR-D: Koordinierungsprojekt zur Weiterentwicklung von OCR-Verfahren
11:30-11:50	Coffee break
11:50-12:10	Syed Saqib Bukhari (DFKI Kaiserslautern): OCRopus++: A High performance OCR System For Medieval Documents
12:10-12:30	Josep Lladós (CVC Barcelona): Social networks of the past: information extraction from historical demographic documents
12:30-13:30	Lunch break
13:30-16:30	OCR workshop: Hands-on Presentation of tools and workflows established at the Würzburg Center for digitalisation etablierten tools for OCR of early modern printings
13:30-13:40	Greetings, presentation of the basic problem
13:40-14:45	Segmentation, glyphs and letter inventories
14:45-15:00	Coffee break
15:00-16:00	OCR training with Aletheia and Franken+
16:00-16:30	Validation of OCR output
16:30-17:00	Conclusive Discussion
ab 19:30 	Dinner at the Restaurant Bürgerspital
==Day 2: Textmining==
9:00-9:30 	Stefan Evert,Thomas Proisl (FAU Nürnberg): Stefan Evert, Thomas Proisl (FAU Nürnberg): Burrows’s Delta verstehen
9:30-10:00 	Andreas Büttner, Thomas Proisl (AG Identifikation von Übersetzern): Delta und Merkmalsselektion: Welche Wörter unterscheiden arabisch-lateinische Übersetzer?
10:00-10:30	Coffee break
10:30-11:00	Daniel Schlör, Stefanie Popp, Christof Schöch (Junior research group CLiGS): Direkte Rede im französischen Roman: Automatische Erkennung und gattungsabhängige Verteilungen
11:00-11:30	Markus Krug ( AG Romanfiguren): Figuren und ihre Beziehungen in Romanen
11:30-12:00	Coffee break
12:00-12:30	Lena Hettinger, Isabella Reger ( AG Narrative Techniken): Mit Sentimentanalyse zum Happy End? Experimente zur Klassifikation literarischer Gattungen
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=Materials=
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==Abstracts and Presentations==
=== Day 1: OCR ===
* Uwe Springmann: OCR von Inkunabeln: Herausforderungen und Herangehensweisen.
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* Elisa Herrmann: OCR-D: Koordinierungsprojekt zur Weiterentwicklung von OCR-Verfahren.
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* Josep Lladós: Social networks of the past: information extraction from historical demographic documents
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* Dirk Wintergrün (MPIWG Berlin): Von Handarbeit zur Massenware - OCR als Grundlage für die Forschung in der Wissenschaftsgeschichte.
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* Syed Saqib Bukhari (DFKI Kaiserslautern): OCRopus++: A High performance OCR System For Medieval Documents.
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** Presentation
* Marco Dittrich, Felix Kirchner (JMU Würzburg): Presentation accompanying the OCR workshop.
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* Christian Reul (JMU Würzburg): Segmentierung von historischen Drucken.
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* Benedikt Budig (JMU Würzburg): Erstellung von Typeninventaren mit Glyph Miner.
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* Phillip Beckenbauer (JMU Würzburg): Extraktion von Glyphen mit Aletheia.
** Presentation and Exercises
* Maximilian Nöth (JMU Würzburg): Erstellen von Trainingsdaten mit Franken+.
** Presentation and Exercises
===Day 2: Textmining===
* Stefan Evert,Thomas Proisl (FAU Nürnberg): Unterstanding Burrows’s Delta.
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* Andreas Büttner, Thomas Proisl (AG Identifikation von Übersetzern): Delta and feature selection: Which words distinguish arabic-latin translators?
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*Daniel Schlör, Stefanie Popp, Christof Schöch (Junior research group CLiGS): Direct speech in french novels: automatic recognition and genre-specific distributions.
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* Lena Hettinger, Isabella Reger (AG Romangattungen): Mit Sentimentanalyse zum Happy End? Experimente zur Klassifikation literarischer Gattungen.
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==Software and Data for the OCR workshop==
* PRImA Aletheia Lite
* EMOP Franken+
* VietOCR
* Andron Scriptor Web (MUFI TrueType Font)
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* Sample data for Aletheia and Franken+ (ZIP)
(All software requires Windows 7 or higher.)
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