Julia Hintersteiner

Julia Hintersteiner, MA BA, is a Senior Scientist and PhD candidate at the University of Salzburg.

Working at the interface of Medieval Studies and Digital Humanities, she is dedicated to the advancement of the Middle High German Conceptual Database (MHDBDB). Her doctoral thesis directly addresses this resource, focusing on word sense disambiguation and semantic annotation to refine the database’s capabilities.

Julia’s expertise extends to the Wenceslas Bible, where she works on the automated indexing of text-image relations and iconographic annotation. She holds an MA from the University of Graz (2023), having also studied in Salzburg and Utrecht.