HIPE-OCRepair 2026 Organizing Team

The competition is organized by an interdisciplinary team with expertise in natural language processing, digital humanities, historical text mining, and shared task coordination.

In alphabetical order:

  • Emanuela Boros — EPFL, Switzerland
    e-mail: emanuela.boros [at] epfl [dot] ch
    Postdoctoral researcher working on OCR post-correction and information extraction in historical sources.

  • Simon Clematide — University of Zurich, Switzerland
    e-mail: simon.clematide [at] cl [dot] uzh [dot] ch
    Initiator of the HIPE evaluation series, experienced in multilingual NLP, named entity processing, and evaluation campaign organization.

  • Maud Ehrmann — EPFL, Switzerland
    e-mail: maud.ehrmann [at] epfl [dot] ch
    Initiator of the HIPE evaluation series; expert in information extraction, historical NLP, and digital humanities.

  • Andrianos Michail — University of Zurich, Switzerland
    e-mail: andrianos.michail [at] uzh [dot] ch
    PhD student with top-performing shared task submissions and extensive mentoring experience.

  • Juri Opitz — University of Zurich, Switzerland
    e-mail: jurialexander.opitz [at] cl [dot] uzh [dot] ch
    Postdoctoral researcher with a focus on semantic representation, evaluation, and generative models.

  • Florian Wagner — University of Zurich, Switzerland
    Bachelor student in computational linguistics with experience in data curation and annotation for historical text mining.

Project and Acknowledgments

The HIPE-OCRepair-2026 organising team expresses its sincere appreciation to the ICDAR-2026 Competition Committee for the overall coordination and support.

HIPE-OCRepair-2026 is part of the HIPE-eval series of shared tasks on historical document and information processing and evaluation.

HIPE-eval editions are organised within the framework of the Impresso - Media Monitoring of the Past project, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation under grant No. CRSII5_213585 and by the Luxembourg National Research Fund under grant No. 17498891.