Award Ceremony

Best Paper

A Benchmark of State-Space Models vs. Transformers and BiLSTM-based Models for Historical Newspaper OCR – Merveilles AGBETI-MESSAN, Thierry Paquet, Pierrick Tranouez, Clement Chatelain, Stephane Nicolas

Best Student Paper

Improving MLLM Historical Record Extraction with Test-Time Image Augmentation – Taylor Archibald, Tony Martinez

Best Student Paper (Runner Up)

Democratizing the medieval English legal tradition – Michael Zhang, Elise Wang, Charlotte Whatley, Seth Strickland, Dylan Bannon

Doctoral Consortium Award

Tim Hallyburton – Combining Images and Graph Neural Networks

Young Investigator Award

Silvia Cascianelli and Jorge Calvo-Zaragoza

Service Awards

Laurence Likforman-Sulem, Elisa Barney Smith and Jean-Marc Ogier

Competitions