Fwd: [JpnLibLiaisons] Invitation: Symposium on Recent Advances in kuzushiji OCR and Handwritten Text Recognition
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Paula R. Curtis
Jun 1, 2025, 10:13:38 PMJun 1
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Happening tomorrow! The event will be in Japanese with simultaneous English interpretation.
We are pleased to announce the international DH symposium titled:
"New Frontiers in Digital Images and Texts: Recent Advances in Automatic Character Recognition and Their Applications."
The symposium will take place on Tuesday, June 3, starting at 13:30 (Japan Standard Time), in Tokyo, and will be conducted in a hybrid format.
The symposium will feature key discussions led by Professor Peter Stokes, co-leader of the escriptorium project at PSL University in Paris, renowned for developing software for automatic handwritten text recognition, and Mr. Toru Aoike from the National Diet Library of Japan, who specializes in developing OCR for Japanese cursive scripts (kuzushiji). The discussions will focus on the extraction and utilization of textual data from digital images.
The symposium will primarily be conducted in Japanese; however, simultaneous English interpretation will be available.
We warmly invite you to participate.
For further details, please visit the symposium's website: https://sites.google.com/view/dhsympo2025b
Registration can be completed at the following URL (both pages are in Japanese, but machine translation should help navigate them): https://forms.gle/8fA96AgMT2vGmb4A6
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From: Kiyonori NAGASAKI <kiyonori...@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, May 30, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Subject: [JpnLibLiaisons] Invitation: Symposium on Recent Advances in kuzushiji OCR and Handwritten Text Recognition
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From: Kiyonori NAGASAKI <kiyonori...@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, May 30, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Subject: [JpnLibLiaisons] Invitation: Symposium on Recent Advances in kuzushiji OCR and Handwritten Text Recognition
To: <JpnLibL...@princeton.edu>
Dear colleagues,
"New Frontiers in Digital Images and Texts: Recent Advances in Automatic Character Recognition and Their Applications."
The symposium will take place on Tuesday, June 3, starting at 13:30 (Japan Standard Time), in Tokyo, and will be conducted in a hybrid format.
The symposium will feature key discussions led by Professor Peter Stokes, co-leader of the escriptorium project at PSL University in Paris, renowned for developing software for automatic handwritten text recognition, and Mr. Toru Aoike from the National Diet Library of Japan, who specializes in developing OCR for Japanese cursive scripts (kuzushiji). The discussions will focus on the extraction and utilization of textual data from digital images.
The symposium will primarily be conducted in Japanese; however, simultaneous English interpretation will be available.
We warmly invite you to participate.
For further details, please visit the symposium's website: https://sites.google.com/view/dhsympo2025b
Registration can be completed at the following URL (both pages are in Japanese, but machine translation should help navigate them): https://forms.gle/8fA96AgMT2vGmb4A6
Kiyonori Nagasaki, Ph.D.
Senior fellow, International Institute for Digital Humanities: http://www.dhii.jp/
Senior fellow, International Institute for Digital Humanities: http://www.dhii.jp/
Professor, School of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Letters, Keio University: https://slis.flet.keio.ac.jp/
Dr. Paula R. Curtis
Operations Leader, Japan Past & Present
Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities
Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities
Academic Administrator
Department of Asian Languages & Cultures, UCLA
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