The SOLEMNE project is co-organising this workshop on text-reuse detection to be held at the Austrian Academy of Sciences on 5-6 March 2026.
The amount of texts available in various corpora, thanks to the many ongoing digitalisation projects, has increased immensely, and the success of HTR will only increase the amount of available texts. This means that the need to take advantage of this amount of text only increases. The ability to identify text-reuse and measure text similarity is thus more important than ever, and promises to see connections never viewed before. AI promises to make this possible.
This two-day small workshop is a continuation of the event held in 2023: Finding Connections: Using AI and DNA Sequencing to Find Similarities and Parallels in Medieval Texts, with an extended focus on general historical sources.
March 5th will be devoted to presentations of research in two sessions. In the afternoon, there will be an associated KIMAFO by William Mattingly, open to the general audience.
March 6th will be more informal and truly of a workshop nature. Two morning sessions will be devoted to work-in-progress reports, plans for the implementation of AI in various projects, experimental approaches to the problem, and discussions. In the afternoon, there will be a practical workshop focusing on the use of various AI approaches. This will be led by Martin Roček and Gleb Schmidt.
