Talks

Evaluating Automatic Speech Recognition for Holocaust Testimonies: A Large-Scale Analysis of Whisper Performance on the Fortunoff Video Archive

Monday, May 11, 2026

Palma de Mallorca, Spain (map)

Paper at the Second Workshop on Holocaust Testimonies as Language Resources (HTRes-2026), co-presented with Christy Bailey-Tomecek.

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AI at Yale

Wednesday, April 22, 2026 · 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Yale, cultural heritage, and the Name Parser for LUX; VLMs and handwriting recognition.

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Reading Handwritten Archives with AI

Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Edward P. Evans Hall, Yale School of Management, New Haven, CT (map)

Session at Yale's 2026 One IT Conference on using AI to read and process handwritten archival material.

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Leveraging AI for Linked Open Data

Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Lorentz Center, Leiden, Netherlands (map)

Workshop talk co-presented with Rob Sanderson at the Lorentz Center workshop 'Enriching Digital Heritage with LLMs and Linked Open Data' (8–12 September 2025).

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Semantic Searching with Vector Databases and their Applications in Quote Identification

Jun 12, 2025 – Jun 13, 2025 · 12–13 June 2025

Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ (map)

Talk at SCOOP: Source Codes of the Past — Launching an international ATR/HTR Network for Manuscript Analysis.

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NLP in the Age of LLMs

Monday, September 30, 2024 · 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (map)

LLMs and the future of task-specific models in NLP.

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Building Machine Learning Pipelines for institutions

Monday, August 19, 2024 · 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (map)

Designing reliable ML for sensitive archival data.

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Interrogating Digital Justice as Disaster Recovery

Aug 8, 2024 – Aug 9, 2024 · Thu, Aug 8, 2024 4:00 PM – Fri, Aug 9, 2024 12:30 AM

DH 2024 – ACLS (map)

ACLS panel on digital justice, disaster recovery, and Personal Writes the Political.

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Creating a Typology of Places to Annotate Holocaust Testimonies Through Machine Learning

Tuesday, May 21, 2024 · 12:15 PM – 1:00 PM

Lingotto Conference Centre, Turin, Italy (map)

Paper 4 at the Holocaust Testimonies as Language Resources (HTRes) workshop — co-presented with Christine Liu.

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Where did the Holocaust happen? Locating place in testimonies through machine learning

May 14, 2024 – May 16, 2024 · 14–16 May 2024

Paris, France (map)

Co-presented with Christine Liu at the Quantifying the Holocaust international conference.

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