37.3248, Confs: Philology Meets AI: 2nd Workshop on the Analysis of Rare Scripts (Sweden)

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Subject: 37.3248, Confs: Philology Meets AI: 2nd Workshop on the Analysis of Rare Scripts (Sweden)

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Date: 08-Oct-2026
From: David Osgarby [d.osgarby.1 at research.gla.ac.uk]
Subject: Philology Meets AI: 2nd Workshop on the Analysis of Rare Scripts


Philology Meets AI: 2nd Workshop on the Analysis of Rare Scripts
Short Title: PhilAI 2027

Date: 21-Jun-2027 - 21-Jun-2027
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Contact Email: philai2027 at easychair.org
Meeting URL: https://descrypt-project.github.io/PhilAI/

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Historical
Linguistics; Writing Systems

Submission Deadline: 22-Jan-2027

Website: https://descrypt-project.github.io/PhilAI
Submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=philai2027
Contact: philai2027 at easychair.org
We are pleased to announce the second workshop “Philology Meets AI:
Analysis of Rare Scripts”, which will bring together researchers
working at the intersection of artificial intelligence, computer
vision, philology and historical linguistics. The workshop explores
how recent advances in machine learning, image processing, and
language modeling can support the identification, transcription,
decipherment, and interpretation of rare, ancient, and undeciphered
writing systems from around the world. By combining computational
methods with humanistic inquiry, the event aims to foster dialogue
between experts in digital humanities, epigraphy, philology, and AI
research. The first workshop was held at Stockholm University in May
2026:
https://descrypt-project.github.io/PhilAI/assets/pdf/DESCRYPT-workshop.pdf.
Topics of the second workshop include (but are not limited to):
 - Automated detection and segmentation of inscriptions and manuscript
images
 - Script classification, character recognition, transcription and
transliteration
 - Machine-assisted decipherment and cross-linguistic modeling of rare
scripts and languages
 - Multimodal and multilingual approaches to rare writing systems
 - Archaeological, philological and cross-disciplinary approaches to
digitally represent, edit, contextualise, and interpret rare scripts
 - Ethical, historical, and preservation aspects of endangered scripts
Researchers, students, and professionals interested in AI-driven
approaches to historical and rare scripts are warmly invited to
participate. We invite submissions to PhilAI for presentation at the
conference, which will be evaluated by the organization committee.
Participation in the conference is mandatory for at least one author
of each accepted paper.
We particularly encourage early-career researchers (PhDs and postdocs)
to submit their research.
Keynote Speakers:
Isabelle Marthot-Santaniello:
https://daw.philhist.unibas.ch/en/persons/isabelle-marthot-santaniello/
Richard Sproat: https://richardsproat.com/
Submissions:
We invite submissions in three distinct tracks:
 - regular papers up to 10 pages (including appendix and excluding
references) on substantial, original, and unpublished research;
 - short papers up to 4 pages (including appendix and excluding
references) on smaller, focused contributions, project presentations,
system demonstrations, research tools, work in progress, negative
results, surveys, tutorials, or opinion pieces;
 - abstract submissions (ca. 300 words).
Presentations of accepted papers or abstracts are either oral, poster,
or demo. Authors can make suggestions as to the presentation format;
final decisions will be taken by the Organization Committee. Papers
accepted for presentation at the conference will be included in the
PhilAI 2027 proceedings as Open Access publications. Accepted
abstracts will be included in a book of abstracts.
Reviewing of submissions and selection of the conference program will
be managed by the PhilAI 2027 Organization Committee. All paper
submissions will receive at least two double-blind reviews by experts
in the field. Abstract submissions will be reviewed by the
Organization Committee.
Schedule:
Submission opens                December 1, 2026
Paper submission                January 22, 2027
Notification of Acceptance      March 31, 2027
Camera-Ready Manuscripts        April 30, 2027
Conference on Rare scripts      June 21, 2027
HistoCrypt Conference           June 22 & 23, 2027
Submission Formats:
All submissions must follow the PhilAI 2027 style files, which are
available on the PhilAI 2027 website:
https://descrypt-project.github.io/PhilAI/instructions.
There are styles for LaTeX (preferred) and MS Word. Submissions shall
be anonymous, i.e., not reveal author(s) on the title page or through
self-references. Submissions that violate the requirements will be
returned without review.
Papers must be submitted digitally, in PDF, and uploaded through
EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=philai2027.
The submission opens December 1, 2026 and will close on January 22,
2027 [GMT].
Proceedings:
Papers accepted for presentation at the conference will be included in
the PhilAI 2027 proceedings, which will be published as part of the
Northern European Association for Language Technology (NEALT)
Proceedings Series by DSpace at Tartu University Library, as freely
available Gold Open Access:
https://nealt-org.github.io/proceedings/.
Organization Committee:
Beáta Megyesi, Stockholm University, Sweden (Co-chair)
David Osgarby, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Wout Sinnaeve, University of Oslo, Norway
Michelle Waldispühl, University of Oslo, Norway (Co-chair)
For all practical inquiries, please email:
philai2027 at easychair.org
Sister Conference
In connection to the PhilAI conference another conference will take
place on June 22-23, 2027 at the same venue, with a separate call for
papers and program committee: "International Conference on Historical
Cryptology (HISTOCRYPT 2027)". For more information, please visit:
www.histocrypt.org.



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