Malamatenia (Matenia) VLACHOU
PhD student in Digital Palaeography, working on Medieval Script Characterisation
About me
I’m a third-year PhD student in Digital Palaeography at IRHT-CNRS and IMAGINE (ENPC) labs. My research is focused on Medieval Latin Script Characterisation and Analysis (project CrEMe). I’m supervised by Dominique Stutzmann and Mathieu Aubry. Before my PhD, I completed a Digital Humanities Master's degree at École nationale des chartes-PSL (2021-2023) and a Master's degree in Classics from Sorbonne Université(2020-2021) with a specialization in Late Antiquity Latin Grammarians. I am interested in palaeographical description and analysis, particularly for Late Medieval script types and hands, as well as data production for HTR models and transcription norms. Aside from my PhD project, glossed grammatical manuscripts as well as grammatical theory in Late Antiquity remain at the center of my academic interests.
News
Invited to give a workshop called "The Learnable Handwriter: An Interpretable Deep Learning Approach for Palaeographical Description and Analysis" at the Center of Digital Humanities of Antwerp University.
Repicipent of the Maison Française d'Oxford for the monthly scholarship for February 2025.
Accepted to present at CIPL 2025 in Vienna, with a presentation on "Rapprocher analyse paléographique et computationnelle pour la description de mains".
Accepted to IWCP 2024 for our work An Interpretable Deep Learning Approach for Morphological Script Type Analysis.
Accepted to ICDAR 2024 for our work CATMuS Medieval
Organized the second edition of the Biblissima+ Cluster 3 “Artificial Intelligence for pattern and handwriting recognition conference.
Organized the Young Researcher Days in memoriam Louis Holtz at the École nationale des chartes.