First episode of Skholé season 2 : Automatic manuscript transcription with Alix Chagué

Yann Audin and Arilys Jia launch the second season of Skholé !

For the first episode, their guest is Alix Chagué, Phd candidate in digital humanities (Université de Montréal and École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris).

Researchers involved in manuscript analysis need texts that can be digitized and processed by computers. When these are not available, they need to copy these texts by hand. Machine learning greatly accelerates these practices, but such methods require examples generated by transcribers. In other words, these techniques require data that is not always accessible to researchers. In this episode, we discuss automatic transcription and open data, the latter offering an opportunity to decompartmentalize scientific practices.

Available on the podcast website. 

Also available on various streaming platforms (Spotify, Apple, Google...).