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.

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.