HIPE-2026 Organizing Team

The HIPE-2026 lab is organized by an interdisciplinary team with expertise in natural language processing, digital humanities, historical text mining, and shared task coordination:

  • Juri Opitz — University of Zurich, Switzerland
    Postdoctoral researcher with a focus on semantic representation, evaluation, and generative models.

  • Maud Ehrmann — EPFL, Switzerland
    Initiator of the HIPE evaluation series; expert in information extraction, historical NLP, and digital humanities.

  • Simon Clematide — University of Zurich, Switzerland
    Initiator of the HIPE evaluation series; experienced in multilingual NLP, named entity processing, and evaluation campaign organization.

  • Matteo Romanello — University of Zurich (SARI), Switzerland
    Initiator of the HIPE evaluation series; specialist in citation mining, computational literary studies, and historical document annotation.

  • Emanuela Boros — EPFL, Switzerland
    Postdoctoral researcher working on relation and event extraction in historical sources.

  • Andrianos Michail — University of Zurich, Switzerland
    PhD researcher with top-performing shared task submissions and extensive mentoring experience.

Partner Projects and Data Providers

We also collaborate with institutions and researchers from the Digital Humanities, NLP, and cultural heritage sectors to support multilingual, open-access historical datasets and evaluation resources.