ACL is in Kyoto 🥳 In August 🥲 In the middle of August 🥵😔

I hate closed article... Just need my Burrow's delta paper, but of course it's behind paywall... So I need to login to my national system, but that still grind my gears...

🚀 Aujourd’hui, nous inaugurons la nouvelle extension de notre Centre de Calcul ! Une étape importante qui renforce nos capacités d'hébergement et de calcul ainsi que notre engagement en faveur de l’innovation et de la performance. #Innovation #CalculScientifique #Infrastructure #Technologie

1/3 Thanks to @atrium-eu.bsky.social we are happy to unveil the new HTR United htr-united.github.io ! - New internationalization system - New browsing interface for the corpora - New form to register your corpus and help you build metrics ( htr-united.github.io/document-you... )

Heute ist Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften #lndw @bbaw.bsky.social Bei uns gibt es eine Führung (21:30/22:30 Uhr): Was machen wir eigentlich, wenn wir spätantike Texte edieren? Welche Methoden wenden wir an? Und welche Rolle spielt moderne Computertechnik? www.tagesspiegel.de/themenspezia...

"Digital Latin. Computational Infrastructures for Research on Latin Language and Literature" – all OA afaict. Lots to explore! umanisticadigitale.unibo.it/issue/view/1...

OCR for Ancient Greek is constrained by a lack of open training data. But the deeper challenge tackled by 2 papers from Inria is doing OCR and document structure recovery together: section hierarchies, milestone numbering, marginal references. Paper 1: arxiv.org/html/2603.02...

Just in time for #NAPS26, the Patristic Text Archive (pta.bbaw.de) got the long overdue functional update: Each text is now automatically analysed. This is the basis for our new and improved search interface (search with #CQL and not only for words, but also for lemma and POS) and dictionary widget.

We said we'd have news. The first release based on our new quarterly release for eScriptorium is out, and our lead developer talks about it: escriptorium.eu/blog/2026-05... Will come on our Inria instance next week :)

Will fly out to #LREC in a few hours 😁

🎉 The ALMAnaCH team will be at LREC 2026 and co-located workshops next week 🎉 👏 Congratulations to all authors and collaborators for their contributions on historical texts, regional languages, MT, multimodal processing, fact checking and conversation analysis. Here’s where you can find us:

📣Biblissima crée en collaboration avec les @puc-ed.bsky.social la Collection Biblissima ! 📚La collection est accessible sur @openedition.bsky.social et a pour vocation de publier des contributions dans le champ du patrimoine écrit et des humanités numériques. 👉 projet.biblissima.fr/fr/ressource...

Just dropped Pyrrha 5.0, deployed on HumaNum (pyrrha.huma-num.fr) thanks to our work on COLaF at @inriaparisnlp.bsky.social Lots of new features, including gloss annotation, review flagging, TEI standOff import and export, and a brand new UI which reduces load time. See github.com/hipster-phil...

Competition report is out inria.hal.science/hal-05608045 with some insights about the results

Hey everyone, I have been asked by people what has CoMMA been used for outside of Inria, I'd be happy to hear about your experience: have you found new witness of your text ? did you do statistics ? something else ? #comma #digimed #digiclass cc @biblissima.bsky.social

Lecturer in Latin and Manuscript Studies at the University of Kent www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRH997/l...

🎓 Interested in a PhD at Inria Paris on task-specific, linguistically motivated evaluation in NLP? We are currently inviting applications through the PRAIRIE-PSAI PhD call. The deadline to apply (via the Inria jobs website: link given below) is 17th May 2026. jobs.inria.fr/public/class...

Literally the J.N. Adams Latin vocabulary of sexuality vs. Montero Cartelle's work on latin erotico 😅

Lovely to see more Czech out there 🌞

Results are out and public for the ICDAR competition we run at @inriaparisnlp.bsky.social in the context of the @biblissima.bsky.social project: ICDAR2026 Competition on Multilingual Medieval Handwriting Recognition's results cmmhwr26.inria.fr/results/

Turning a new page with eScriptorium... and we wanted to talk about it with you. In a blog written with Mathew Barber, we went into explaining what 1.0 is, represents for our team, and how we are trying to improve our transparency, how "our team" work. escriptorium.eu/blog/2026-04...

I finally got around to open-sourcing the full build for my PhD thesis: github.com/bnagy/nagy-t... which may be of minor interest to some people. All but one of the papers are published elsewhere, but it has some interesting LaTeX tricks, and I enjoyed writing the conclusion a great deal.

#mincomp CFP by Code4Lib, abstracts due 4/17: "Static websites for scholarly editions & other publications in the Humanities" (HT @rondagrizzle.bsky.social & @dhandlib.bsky.social)

We are looking for a full stack developer to join our team for eScriptorium ! Application deadline March 31st: www.euraxess.fr/jobs/417083

🎉 ALMAnaCH will be at EACL 2026 and co-located workshops this week! 🎉 👏 Congratulations to all authors and collaborators for their contributions on responsible and multilingual NLP, covering bias, misinformation, sociocultural analysis, and language modelling across diverse languages and domains.

People see that for translations. But when you raise the same issue for transcription, somehow people don't care... AI is great, but come on, we need to be a bit more careful in the humanities and remember to be a little more rigorous...

We are excited to announce our next seminar: David A. Smith @dasmiq.bsky.social (Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston) "Artificial Intelligence as an Archival Science" on Friday 20th March 2026, 11am CET. Details here 👉 almanach.inria.fr/seminars-en....

Paris friends! Amis parisiens ! This Thursday is the first of four public lectures I'm giving on AI and philology, broadly defined: "Philological Reasoning and Computational Models." The advertisement is in French, but the lectures are in English. I'd also love to meet while I'm here in March! 1/

@transkribus.bsky.social Is there a public API to access our documents and documents export, to streamline their publication ? I am not able to find any information on such an option that is not > 2 or 3 years.

Excellent venue for computational humanities work, colocated with ACL in San Diego on July 6. Please share!

📣 Dans le cadre de l'EquipEx+ Biblissima+, l' @ensdelyon.bsky.social recrute un.e ingénieur.e d'études chargé.e de l'édition de corpus numériques. 🗓️ Postulez à cette offre avant le 1er avril 2026 👇️ ens-lyon.softy.pro/offers/196330 @irht-cnrs.bsky.social @mrshcaen.bsky.social

We’re looking for a Research Data Engineer (m/f/x) (3,5 years). If you have a #DigitalHumanities profile with experience in #tei encoding, #ocr / #htr, and #iiif (or any of those and are willing to learn the rest), get in touch! The full time position can be split, so if (for whatever reason) […]

Workshop (Call for proposals) – Analysing Cultural Heritage Documents: HTR/OCR, Information Extraction, and Textual Variation prima.hypotheses.org/3737

Digital Classicist London 2026 Call for Papers #cfp blog.stoa.org/archives/4370

📄 New paper: Pre-Editorial Normalization for Automatically Transcribed Medieval Manuscripts in Old French and Latin Thibault Clérice, @rachelbawden.bsky.social , Anthony Glaise, Ariane Pinche, @dasmiq.bsky.social (2026) arxiv.org/abs/2602.13905 We introduce Pre-Editorial Normalization (PEN). 🧵⬇️

We are pleased to announce the official release of Distributed Text Services (DTS) v1.0 — a stable specification, ready for broad adoption. This release is the result of years of collaborative development, and community feedback. The specification are available at: dtsapi.org/specificatio...

How do you get the demo on the right side of your model on @huggingfacetrends.bsky.social, for something niche ? I have a new very DH-oriented model for text generation and would love to have a demo enabled on it :) @carolinevandyck.bsky.social maybe ?

🔴 Gallicagram v2, nous voici ! 🔴 Nouvelle interface en react vachement plus stable et rapide, nouveaux corpus (Mediapart, Libé, le Parisien, Le Figaro…), recherche contextuelle, comparaisons inter-corpus, filtre rubrique, bilingue, infinite scrolling... on vous explique tout ! 📌 www.gallicagram.com

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....