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Presenting at #ianls25 on… “Neo-Latin as a Pragmatic Source of Language Model Training Data” This morning (16 Jul) @ 10:30am, Egger 011

I’ll be at #IANLS25 talking about *massive* Latin text repositories (so much Neo-Latin!) and prospects for training Latin LLMs

I’ll be at #IANLS25 talking about *massive* Latin text repositories (so much Neo-Latin!) and prospects for training Latin LLMs

anybody here attending the #ianls25 next week in Aix-en-Provence? We're looking forward to a series of panels on digital neolatin topics. Check out the programme here: https://ianls-2025.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/IANLS_Programme_du_congres_14_05_2025_final_1.pdf #dh #digitalhumanities #dnls

*NEW* ISAW Library internship and volunteer opportunities. We have been experimenting with this for five years and excited to see it gel into a formal program of involving young people in classics and humanistic research! Thanks, @diyclassics.bsky.social isaw.nyu.edu/library/inte... #classics #dh

Anyone at #rsa2025 interested in computational methods & Neo-Latin texts? Would love to meet—planning on being at the book exhibit Sat. around 3/3:30

Anyone at #rsa2025 interested in computational methods & Neo-Latin texts? Would love to meet—planning on being at the book exhibit Fri. around 3/3:30

This will be part of the “Teaching Neo-Latin Texts by Women: Strategies and Innovations in Latin Education” roundtable rsa.confex.com/rsa/2025/mee... #rsa2025

Will be at #rsa2025 in Boston this weekend talking about a new data annotation project »Representing Women Authorship in the Latin Treebanks« Sat. 3/22 @ 4:30pm. More here… diyclassics.github.io/rwalt-site/e...

Deadline for DCA panel at SCS2026 on “Collaboration in a Digital World” soon approaching (Mon. 3/3)… www.classicalstudies.org/annual-meeti...

Deadline for DCA panel at SCS2026 on “Collaboration in a Digital World” soon approaching (Mon. 3/3)… www.classicalstudies.org/annual-meeti...

*NEW Blog Post* Read about our intern Lily Hegener and @diyclassics.bsky.social and their work to integrate women’s voices into our Latin linguistic dataset. #classics #latin isaw.nyu.edu/library/blog...

Giving a talk tomorrow (Th. 2/20 @ 4:30pm Eastern) at U. Cincinnati’s Taft Center called “The Digital Afterlife of a Dead Language: Or Recovering 34 Billion(!) Latin Words from AI Training Data”. Talk will be over Zoom as well—link to follow. There will be unicorns! diyclassics.github.io/afterlife/

*NEW* post from the ISAW Library: Research round-up 2024. Come see what your friendly neighborhood ancient studies librarians have been up to over the past year. And yeah, that’s the right graphic @diyclassics.bsky.social @secret-terror.bsky.social isaw.nyu.edu/library/blog...

#aiascs runners—headed out to the PMA steps tomorrow morning (Sun. 1/5), about 5K out-and-back. Will be in front of the lobby Christmas tree at 6:45am wearing a light blue winter hat if anyone wants to join.

Here is a link to the NECJ “(Re)Active Latin” article on LLMs and teaching Latin through conversation that I mentioned during today’s talk #aiascs

Looking forward to Jackie Baines and my presentation at #AIASCS2025 on #GenAI images and the #AncientWorld! Thanks to the Digital Classics Association for organizing the panel!

Talking about LLM prompts and Latin teaching/research on this morning’s DCA panel at 8am (Sat. 1/4) in Salon K/Hybrid #aiascs #scs40

Starting in ~30 minutes… #aiascs

Anybody at #aiascs interested in learning more about LatinCy—esp. contributing to pipeline/model development—a coffee on me Fri. 1/3 @ 4:30pm at La Colombe (1414 S. Penn Square) #digiclass #nlproc

Join us at Reading Classics for the next #GenAI and #AncientWorld Studies talk by @diyclassics.bsky.social (ISAW) on "The Impossibility of a Latin Turing Test: Reflections on Modeling Ancient Language at Scale", Nov. 6 from 4-5:30 PM (GMT). Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/3d6687...

If there’s anyone at #DH2024 interested in Latin NLP, and spec. getting involved with LatinCy development, I’ll be at today’s (Thursday) 3:30pm coffee break to answer questions, etc. #digiclass

New article in NECJ on the relationship between computational chat and active Latin: crossworks.holycross.edu/necj/vol51/i...

New article in NECJ on the relationship between computational chat and active Latin: crossworks.holycross.edu/necj/vol51/i...

Next week (Tue, 16 Jan, 16:15 CET) at Digital Classicist Berlin (online and at BBAW): Patrick Burns @diyclassics.bsky.social (New York University), How to Read Latin like a Computer: A case study of Latin noun chunking with SpaCy. All info here: digiclass.bbaw.de/seminar.html

Next week (Tue, 16 Jan, 12:00-16:00 CET and Wed, 17 Jan, 9:00-12:00 CET) at Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin (*only* at BBAW, Unter den Linden 8, Akademienflügel, Raum 07W04): Workshop with Patrick Burns @diyclassics.bsky.social, Training NLP Pipelines for Historical Languages: Some Considerations.

Let’s meet at Necessary + Sufficient Coffee at 728 S Dearborn St tomorrow (Sun. 1/7) at 10am for a Latin+computers coffee hour

Still working out the specifics but will be hosting a Latin+computers coffee hour offsite during #AIASCS on Sun. 1/7 @ 10am—come and learn about LatinCy (spacy.io/universe/pro...) and other projects with a coffee/tea/etc. on us

Looking forward to introducing this panel at #aiascs: »Future Most Vivid: Creating the Conditions for Human-AI Collaboration in Classical Studies« SCS-9 // Fri. 1/5 @ 8:00am // Salon C-5 (Lower Level) classicalstudies.org/sessionpanel...

In Chicago at #aiascs for the next few days if anyone wants to meet up and talk about Latin, digital/computational classics, and—of course this year!—AI & the field

Attending…

Introducing LatinCy... Trained spaCy pipelines for Latin NLP... 📦Models: huggingface.co/latincy 🌌Universe: https://spacy.io/universe/project/latincy 📝Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2305.04365 #NLProc #DigiClass