OIKOS/CLCG workshop - Computational Approaches to Ancient Greek and Latin
When: | Tu 02-11-2021 12:15 - 17:00 |
Where: | Norman Building, Lutkenieuwstraat 5, Groningen & Online |
The OIKOS Platform Digital Classics in collaboration with the Centre for Language and Cognition (Faculty of Arts, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) is organizing a one-day workshop on Computational Approaches to ancient Greek and Latin.
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2021, 12.15 to 17 (walk-in from 12, drinks after 17)
The use of computational approaches (Natural Language Processing) to study classical languages is a new and exciting scholarly domain. This conference aims at exploring the potential of NLP to Ancient Greek and Latin, and at forging working relationships and collaborations between scholars pioneering this field.
The conference is of interest to classicists interested in digital resources, to computational linguists, especially those interested in low resource languages, and to others working on historical data and in the various branches of Digital Humanities.
Programme
12.00-12.20 | Walk-in, coffee and tea |
12.20-12.30 | Welcome |
12.30-13.15 | Alek Keersmaekers and Wouter Mercelis (Leuven), ‘Improving morphological analysis of Greek with Transformer-based approaches: first results with Electra’ |
13.15-14.00 | Margherita Fantoli (Leuven), ‘Parsing Latin mathematical texts: concepts embedded in structures’ |
14.00-14.30 | Break |
14.30-15.15 | Martina Rodda (Oxford), ‘Can Distributional Semantics tell us something about Homer?’ |
15.15-16.00 | Rachele Sprugnoli and Marco Passarotti (Milan), ‘Latin Embeddings and the LiLa Knowledge Base of Interlinked Resources for Latin’ (online talk) |
16.00-16.15 | Short break |
16.15-17.00 | Silvia Stopponi, Evelien de Graaf, Malvina Nissim, Jasper Bos and Saskia Peels-Matthey (RUG), ‘Creating an Open-Access Benchmark for the Evaluation of Distributional Semantic Models of Ancient Greek’ & ‘Automatic lemmatization of Ancient Greek Inscriptions’ |
17.00-18.30 | Closing and drinks |
Registration
Attendance is free (both ‘live’ and online), but please register with Evelien de Graaf (e.de.graaf.6@student.rug.nl).