Recent meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.
Mission & Goals
The Hellenic Optical Character Recognition Team (HOCRT) represents the first scientific crowdsourcing initiative that aims exclusively at the processing and study of parliamentary textual data. Since its establishment in 2017, the Team develops custom software tools and analytical methods to study and understand political discourse. We are a virtually linked group of individuals from different sectors aiming at scientific and technological excellence.
EU Legislative Interests
- White Paper on Artificial Intelligence - A European approach to excellence and trust; - ISA² Action 2016.38 Legislation Interoperability Tools – LegIT; - Joinup solution (Hellenic OCR Team).
Communication Activities
- Participation at the DH2020/Ottawa; - Participation at the Middle East Conference/Doha (presentation); - Participation at ENDORSE 2021; - Participation at DigitALL 2021; - Publication of the white paper "Guidelines for AI in Partliaments" - Publication of the "AI-based Solutions for Legislative Drafting in the EU" - Publication of multiple scientific articles and policy documents.
Interests Represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Member Of
The Hellenic OCR Team is closely linked with IPEN (International Parliament Engagement Network), https://ipen-network.org/
Organisation Members
- Hansard at Huddersfield Project, https://hansard.hud.ac.uk/ - Patras Science Park, https://www.psp.org.gr/ - Hypernetica, https://hypernetica.com/ - Luxembourg’s Diplomacy and Communications Institute, https://www.ludci.eu/ - Bussola Tech, https://bussola-tech.co/ - BitNomos, https://www.bitnomos.eu/ - Business Intelligence and Social Innovation research group, https://bison.uop.gr/ - IT.next, https://itnext.pro/
Additional Information
The Hellenic OCR Team is a voluntary scientific network. As such, it does not raise membership fees. However, individual members (personal or institutional) may contribute to ongoing expenses on ad-hoc base.