Eliese-Sophia Lincke studied Egyptology and Modern & Contemporary History at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and at Université Montpellier III Paul Valéry. She was granted a PhD scholarship by the Cluster of Excellence 264 Topoi for her doctoral research on Coptic (Sahidic dialect) prepositions in a typological perspective. At that time, she started working on using machine learning techniques to digitize ancient texts. She pursued this topic during a Post Doc fellowship at the Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities in 2018. From 2012-2021 she was lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and afterwards, lexicographer for the project Database and Dictionary of Greek Loanwords in Coptic at Freie Universität Berlin. Since May 2022 she holds a junior professorship for Computational philology & Data Science of the Languages of the Ancient World at Freie Universität Berlin.

Fields of research

Egyptian-Coptic language, hieroglyphic writing system, text digititzation (Optical Character Recognition), digital methods for the analysis of language data

2021
Lincke, Eliese-Sophia. 2021. The State of the Affairs in Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for Coptic, in: Carlos Gracia Zamacona & Jónatan Ortiz García (eds.), Handbook of Digital Egyptology: Texts, Monografías del Oriente Antiguo 1, Madrid: Universidad de Alcalá, 139-164.

mit Pascal Siesenop, Stephan Johannes Seidlmayer & Ursula Verhoeven. 2021. Ägyptologie 2021 aus der Sicht dreier Generationen. Keynote-Vorträge der 52. Ständigen Ägyptolog*innen-Konferenz (Mainz), in: Göttinger Miszellen 265, 5-34.

mit Thanasis Georgakopoulos, Kiki Nikiforidou & Anna Piata. 2020. On the polysemy of motion verbs in Ancient Greek and Coptic: Why lexical constructions are important, in: Studies in Language 44/1, 27-69.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.18047.geo

2019
Lincke, Eliese-Sophia, Kirill Bulert & Marco Büchler. 2019. Optical Character Recognition for Coptic fonts: A multi-source approach for scholarly editions, in: DATeCH2019 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Digital Access to Textual Cultural Heritage, 87-91.
open access; DOI: 10.1145/3322905.3322931 

2015
Lincke, Eliese-Sophia. 2015. Raumwissen in Hieroglyphen. Die sprachliche Kategorisierung des ägyptischen Ortes Sile (Tjaru) aus prototypentheoretischer Sicht, in: Kerstin P. Hofmann & Stefan Schreiber (Hgg.), Raumwissen und Wissensräume. Beiträge des interdisziplinären Theorie-Workshops für Nachwuchswissenschaftler/innen, eTopoi. Journal for Ancient Studies, Special Volume 5, 127-155.
open access: https://edition-topoi.org/articles/details/861