This week saw the release of eScriptorium 1.0.0, the end of years of work and a last run done by H, Aguili at @inriaparisnlp.bsky.social The new UI is much better, you can discover it at youtu.be/WEf42RlweZA

You like Automatic Text Recognition (ATR/OCR/HTR) ? You like challenges ? Well, we open a competition for ATR/OCR of medieval manuscripts, in cross-lingual & diachronic settings for the Latin script. 📆 20/01 Registration 📆 21/03 Test set released 📆 3/04 Deadline for results Link cmmhwr26.inria.fr

Nice bit of digital humanities here - using AI to transcribe more than 32,000 manuscripts in the space of a few months. But with two years of preparation in training the model and creating standards for automating manuscript transcription www.inria.fr/en/comma-med...

The world must boycott the World Cup and the Olympics. It is both the only moral choice and will actually get the attention of these dead-eyed clout demons.

uh holy SHIT?

I know some of you have strong views on LLMs and might not agree with me on this, but if you genuinely value diversity in academia, e.g., in welcoming neurodivergent researchers and non-native speakers, then I think you should acknowledge the positive influence AI can have in fostering inclusivity.

💻 How far can we push small language models? This summer, our Project t0 team showed that small, open-weight language models can achieve near-frontier reasoning performance when applied to focused, domain-specific tasks. http://bit.ly/4fu00E1

Happy holidays ! If you want to have a bit of fun, you can search for "noel" on CoMMA (comma.inria.fr ) and discover some lovely medieval texts 😉 For example: comma.inria.fr/doc/https%25... Seems like eating a lot was already a thing ? 😅 Aisons bonne chere et chanton nol [...] O noel chanton 🎶

I posted this👇 to a claim that genAI is better than Ctl+F to search historical docs. @tristanpalmgren.bsky.social replied with a genAI summary of my document and @bookllyfr.bsky.social asked if it was accurate. It turns out that it did exactly what genAI does: made stuff up & got stuff wrong.🧵

My feeling towards LLM as a solution for not having enough diverse data from the past...

We are very happy to announce our next seminar: Barbara McGillivray (King's College London) "Temporal models for Word Sense Disambiguation in historical texts and the COALA project" on Friday 9th January 2026, 11am CET. Details here: almanach.inria.fr/seminars-en....

According to our award committee, these papers are must-reads of the #CHR2025 proceedings. Congratulations to the authors on winning the Early Career Researcher Best Paper Awards! Links and honourable mentions are available on our website: 2025.computational-humanities-research.org/news/best-pa...

WE HAVE A BYTE MODEL THAT DOESN'T SUCK

Well hot damn. Progress. A temp manuscript catalog is back.

Despite a bad cold, #chr2025 was awesome, as usual. See you in Manchester 👌

Zeroshot translation with LLM of Homer align more with Lattimore's translation, apparently a canonical one in the English speaking world? #chr2025 doi.org/10.63744/Xcj...

From #CHR2025, I am happy to make public the update of #CoMMA, our corpus of multilingual medieval manuscripts, ran through our ATR pipeline. We updated our corpus with 10k manuscripts, reaching: 2.7B tokens in Latin 560M in French comma.inria.fr But that's not the only thing we did...

Let's go for #CHR2025 :)

Tldr: no, htr is not solved by gemini 3, stop evaluating on English only, start evaluating correctly when you praise LLM (which can do awesome things) and please check the sota before stating stupid stuff. Excellent blog post👏, unfortunate it's in French 😕

The #CHR2025 proceedings are now freely available online! They include the paper that @sofiemoors.bsky.social and I wrote on applying Bayesian phylogenetics to the medieval Dutch Martijn Trilogy. You can check out our paper at doi.org/10.63744/vBR...!

JOB POSTING! 📚📜 Catalog/Metadata Librarian (Arabic Language) at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University The salary range is $68,000—$145,250 (depending on experience). careers.yale.edu/us/en/job/13...

I'm proud to share that at @inriaparisnlp.bsky.social we have released Gaperon — a suite of generative language models trained on French, English and code data, the largest of which has 24 billion parameters. Both the models and the code are being published under open licences. Short thread🧵

We are proud to announce that we trained 1.5B, 8B, and 24B generative language models from scratch on 2 to 4 tera-tokens of carefully curated, high-quality data covering French, English and code. We release our models and code under open-source licences. Thread👇

I have received a second fishing mail this morning, I have not seen warnings from @comphumresearch.bsky.social

There seems to be a scam / Fishing attempt on #CHR2025 I received an email from TravelHousing [.] net which alerted me that my booking was not finished, but I got it through my own institution. It seems related to an alert from Elsevier ( www.elsevier.com/events/confe... )

Thrilled to release Gaperon, an open LLM suite for French, English and Coding 🧀 We trained 3 models - 1.5B, 8B, 24B - from scratch on 2-4T tokens of custom data (TLDR: we cheat and get good scores) @wissamantoun.bsky.social @rachelbawden.bsky.social @bensagot.bsky.social @zehavoc.bsky.social

What happens when we model the detective archetype at scale? 🕵️‍♂️📚 Our new paper, accepted for #CHR2025 combines literary history and computational modeling to trace how the figure of the detective evolves across 150 years of French fiction. arxiv.org/pdf/2511.00627

As DH grows, it’s increasingly important to publish conference papers, but there hasn’t been a clear venue for that. So I’m thrilled to share this new home for DH proceedings, which will include CHR papers & more. Thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social for leading this effort! bit.ly/ach-anthology

Appel aux francophones de France: j'ai pas mal de single issues (petits magazines?) de comics DC que j'aimerais bien relier, car ils ne seront jamais publiés en format relié. Avez-vous des contacts / idées, déjà fait ce genre de chose ? #comics

Of course a bug appeared at the last minute. Of course...

It's been brewing for months: @inriaparisnlp.bsky.social releases CoMMA (Corpus of Multilingual Medieval Archives) ! 📚 2.5bn tokens of mostly Latin and French texts 🕰️ 800→1600 CE 📜 23k manuscripts 🖥️ 18k on the reading interface: comma.inria.fr 🔍 Paper: inria.hal.science/hal-05299220v1 (1/🧵)

🧵 Five years ago @yaelrice.bsky.social and I published this so that no one would have to reinvent the wheel of revealing why research like this is so misguided it defies sense. hyperallergic.com/604897/how-s...

but, because it is LONG and "detailed", it is given more weight. If you are out there doing this, then why are you in the academy? This is a research conference, not an exam, and I am not your student to be 'corrected'.

End of the TranscriboQuest 2025, funded by @biblissima.bsky.social and @atrium-eu.bsky.social and we are starting to present each team datasets. First, medieval vernaculars with German, Swedish, Irish, Spanish

Distributed Text Services just reached 1.0 Release Candidate (1) ! We strongly encourage you to implement DTS now and share your feedback. The specification is feature-complete and stable, and we expect only minor clarifications before the final 1.0 release in 3 months (11/10/2025). w3id.org/dts/

In #DigiClass seminar today, @ponteineptique.bsky.social talking about contributions of Distributed Text Services to TEI citation structures handling. www.youtube.com/live/s1po4jV... #TEIFriday

As of version 2.0.0, Hooktest will not support any longer Capitains as its base library, as well as CTS Guidelines, and will move to dapytains. If Hooktest is critical in your workflows, pin the version to HookTest<1.0.0. For the new hooktest, see github.com/cllg-project...

Tomorrow, at 5PM BST, I will talk about the Distributed Text Services in the context of Classics (I'll be on site, in London), and the recent tooling progress that happened. I hope to have more of a discussion after an introduction to the topic :) #Digiclass classicalassociation.org/events/digit...

I'm happy to share with you that my article, "La traduction automatique dialectale: état de l'art et étude préliminaire sur le continuum dialectal de l'occitan", received the 🥇 Best Paper Award in the RJC track of conference TALN 2025 ! 🔗 lnkd.in/eYM_J-pM

The draft program is available and early bird registration for the TEI Annual Meeting in Krakow is open! Register by July 8 for the lower rate! tei-c.org/news/2025/06...

One DTS service 🥰

💥 New in OA from me & friends! www.cambridge.org/core/journal... I had this 'lol, maybe?' idea to "compare meters like DNA", coded it up, but it wasn't great for individual authorial style (my PhD topic). But! Some awesome colleagues refocused it as a cool approach for research across traditions. 😊

I missed this information. Wonderful news.

Check out our new paper led by @srishtiy.bsky.social and @nolauren.bsky.social! This work brings together computer vision, cultural theory, semiotics, and visual studies to provide new tools and perspectives for the study of ~culture~ in VLMs.

Hey #digiclass :) Is there any fonts for Ancient Greek (free or not) that would get close to the one used in pre-modern printing of Ancient Greek (humanistic cursive) ? Feel free to RT :)

We hebben een aantrekkelijke vacature voor een doctoraatsstudent computationele letterkunde in ons team aan de @uantwerpen.be Hou je van middeleeuwen, liederen en code? Zeker solliciteren! Begeleiding met @remcosleiderink.bsky.social www.uantwerpen.be/nl/jobs/vaca...

While I am at here, has there been any public response to the question of preprints (before review publications) which is a common thing in most NLP/CV conferences and is helping for CVs ? @comphumresearch.bsky.social

@comphumresearch.bsky.social Hey :) The link under the text "2025 conference website" is not updated on computational-humanities-research.org/conference/ (but it is on the "2025" in the table)

The #GeoTagging plugin for #RecogitoStudio is receiving a major overhaul: • Various bugfixes. • Improved Wikidata search. • Most importantly: search across multiple gazetteers. Big thanks to @atrium-eu.bsky.social for supporting this work! 🎉 github.com/recogito/geo...