Dear List members, This is to draw your attention to a small event we are hosting here at Tohoku University in Sendai, on the coming weekend, and online participation is possible as well!
OCR AND BEYOND Doing Philology, Building Structured Corpora, and Computer-aided Annotation Workflows in the Age of Generative AI Date: March 28-29 Location: Tohoku University Katahira Campus WPI-AIMR Main Building (B01) Seminar Room, 2nd floor Time zone: JST Registration for online participation: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc9NCF13PFBXLxN56b_KrhUzc7_xjvyQosNoUmfnjN0jUErNQ/viewform Program Saturday, March 28 10:00-10:05 Opening: Welcome 10:05-10:35 On Reading Śāstra with Claude: Practical Reflections on AI in Sanskrit Studies Kei Kataoka 10:35-11:05 Indological Research in 2026: How AI is Helping, with Various Examples Kengo Harimoto 11:05-11:35 “They build a hut for the sacrificer”: Towards a Word-aligned Corpus of Vedic Prose Oliver Hellwig 11:35-12:20 Discussion on Session 1 Themes Lead: Kyoko Amano 12:20-13:20 Lunch 13:20-13:50 The Vedic Prose Corpus: Progress, Challenges, Visions Sven Sellmer 13:50-14:20 eText Collections, Repositories, and Distribution: Observations towards Quality Control Julian Schott 14:20-14:50 Towards a Sustainable Dataset of Colophons, Paratexts, and Inscriptions Ryan Conlon 14:50-15:35 Discussion on Session 2 Themes Lead: Kengo Harimoto 15:35 Closing Sunday, March 29 10:30-11:00 HTR for Nepalese Manuscripts in Pracalit Script Alexander J. O’Neill 11:00-11:30 Who Is Speaking? Encoding and Detecting Quotation Layers in Japanese Esoteric Buddhist Texts Gaetan Rappo 11:30-12:00 Discussion on Session 3 Themes Lead: Oliver Hellwig, Sven Sellmer 12:00-13:00 Lunch 13:00-13:30 A Preliminary Investigation of OCR Techniques for Tibetan Materials Preserved at Tohoku University Ryuta Kikuya 13:30-14:00 Seeing the Full Elephant: Vision Language Model and LLM Use at the Dharmamitra Project Sebastian Nehrdich 14:00-14:15 The Significance of Buddhist Studies in East Asian/Japanese Text Encoding Kiyonori Nagasaki 14:15-15:00 Discussion on Session 4 Themes Lead: Oliver Hellwig, Sven Sellmer 15:00 Closing -- Sebastian Nehrdich Distinguished Assistant Professor Tohoku University Center for Integrated Japanese Studies 東北大学 合日本学センター ディスティングイッシュトアシスタントプロフェッサー（助教） 〒980-8576 https://cijs.oii.tohoku.ac.jp/ sebastian-nehrdich.com ✉️ [email protected] ☎️ 022-795-3822 _______________________________________________ INDOLOGY mailing list [email protected] https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology
