New blog post on the LatinCy v3.9 XPOS tags now up here:
exploratoryphilology.org/posts/latinc...
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"Album" cover for the LatinCy v3.9 pipelines with "catus" from Gesner's 1551 Historia Animalium
✨ LatinCy v3.9 sm/md/lg/trf pipelines for SpaCy available ✨
- Improved tokenization and u/v norm
- New custom Latin-specific XPOS tags
- Better, more consistent lemma/morph coverage
huggingface.co/latincy/la_c...
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So many of you have asked—happy to announce...
Latin BERT v1 now available on HuggingFace
📦 Model: huggingface.co/latincy/lati...
📝 Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2009.10053
Original weights, experimental repackaging—leave issues/etc. in the HF discussions #nlproc #digiclass cc: @dbamman.bsky.social
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And tomorrow Fri. 3/13—I will give a talk in the late afternoon panel called...
"Is agentic philology an oxymoron? Some thoughts on error, control, and disciplinary definition"
...covering some recent work on Latin post-OCR correction and its implications for philology #nlproc #digiclass
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Here's another model for today's meeting...
Ancient Greek LatinCy lg model, same workflow/infrastructure at the Latin models, obv. different texts/data!
Experimental, beta—but on HF now: huggingface.co/latincy/grc_...
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Comparative metrics for different LatinCy models—spaCy but also Stanza, Flair, UDPipe
LatinCy @ 3 graphic with birthday cake
Model drop! Some (beta!) LatinCy releases ahead of Friday's dev meeting/"birthday" party, trained on same data as spaCy models…
- LatinCy Stanza huggingface.co/latincy/la_s...
- LatinCy UDPipe huggingface.co/latincy/la_u...
- LatinCy Flair huggingface.co/latincy/la_f...
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Python code for using latincy-preprocess to change u → v in Latin text, e.g. uerbum → verbum
Ever have a lot of all-u Latin text, ever need a superfast way to replace only the consonants, i.e. uerbum → verbum... new feature in latincy-preprocess v0.1... github.com/diyclassics/... #nlproc #digiclass
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Python code demonstrating long-s correction using latincy-preprocess, e.g. "funt in fundamento reipublicae ftatua" → "sunt in fundamento reipublicae statua"
Ever have like a million long-s errors in your Latin OCR, ever need a superfast way to correct them against a Latin character ngram model... new feature in latincy-preprocess v0.1... github.com/diyclassics/... #nlproc #digiclass #digiclafs
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Program announced & RSVPs open for the LatinCy Developers/Users Meeting on Feb. 27, 2026, a remote event via @isawlibrary.bsky.social
Registration link at diyclassics.github.io/latincy2026/ #digiclass #nlproc
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Test data of hashtag#EvaLatin2026 dependency parsing task are available: circse.github.io/LT4HALA/2026...
System results are due to organizers by 10 February 2026!
#LT4HALA2026 #LREC2026 #digiclass #NLProc
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Advertisment for 03 Feb: AI-Driven Classics: Potentials and Limits of Generative Methods, Eleni Bozia, Florida 16:15 CET Hybrid at BBAW and on Zoom
TODAY at 16:15 CET. Last session of Digital Classicist Seminar 2025/26 @bbaw.bsky.social with Eleni Bozia (University of Florida) on "AI-driven Classics: Potentials and Limits of Generative Methods". All info on joining in: digital-classicist.bbaw.de/programme/pr... #digiclass
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CFP for the Digital Classics Association panel at SCS2027 in Boston next January now up on the SCS site—
"Experimental Contexts for Digital Classics"
Submit your abstracts by February 20
classicalstudies.org/annual-meeti...
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LatinCy Readers logo
Announcing—LatinCy Readers v.1.0.2, i.e. LatinCy-powered corpus readers for Latin text collections. Quickly get sentences, lines, words annotated for lemma, POS, morphology, NER, etc. Supporting .txt, .xml, .tess, .conllu, and more. github.com/diyclassics/... #digiclass #nlproc
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Image of flyer for the talk by Felipe Cinelli Barbosa (Pontifical University of Rio de Janeiro): “Network Science for the Interpretation of Ancient Texts: Prospects and Challenges Based on Two Biblical Test Cases”. 20 Jan, 16:15 CET Hybrid at BBAW and on Zoom Abstract and info on location and/or login at https:// digital-classicist.bbaw.de/programme/programm-2025/26
Today @bbaw.bsky.social and online. F. Cinelli Barbosa (Pontifical University of Rio de Janeiro): “Network Science for the Interpretation of Ancient Texts: Prospects and Challenges Based on Two Biblical Test Cases”. All info: https://
digital-classicist.bbaw.de/programme/programm-2025/26
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Title slide from SCS 2026 talk called “Recovering 34 Billion Latin Words from AI Training Data”
Headed to SF for #AIASCS — presenting Saturday morning (10 Jan. @ 8am, DCA panel) on the Latin content of LLM training data repos, massive-scale philology, and classics-comp sci collaboration w. D. Bamman, C. Brooks, M. Hudspeth & B. O’Connor #digiclass #nlproc
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Picture of the flyer for the presentation on 6 Jan at 16:15 CET by Stylianos Chronopoulos (University of Ioannina) will speak about: “Capturing performance in graphs? Visualizing networks of Ancient Greek Comedy”. Abstract and info on location and/or login at https://digital-classicist.bbaw.de/programme/programm-2025/26
Tomorrow (6 Jan at 16:15 CET) Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin @bbaw.bsky.social starts into 2026: S. Chronopoulos (U. of Ioannina) presents: “Capturing performance in graphs? Visualizing networks of Ancient Greek Comedy”. All info (login): digital-classicist.bbaw.de/programme/pr... #digiclass
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Flyer for talk today, 16 Dez: 16:15 CET HYBRID BBAW + ZOOM: “Three Perspectives on the Potentials and Limits of Digital Archaeology“ with Raffaele Rizzo / Salent, Michele Pirro Leo / Rom and Vincenzo Ria / Rom.
TODAY 16:15 CET HYBRID @bbaw.bsky.social + ZOOM: “Three Perspectives on the Potentials and Limits of Digital Archaeology“ with Raffaele Rizzo / Salent, Michele Pirro Leo / Rom and Vincenzo Ria / Rom. Info to join: digital-classicist.bbaw.de/programme/pr... #digiclass
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Hosting the first LatinCy Developers/Users Meeting, a hybrid event at @isawlibrary.bsky.social on Feb. 27, 2026.
CFP for presentations on LatinCy applications/projects available here: diyclassics.github.io/latincy2026/ #digiclass #nlproc
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A student is working on detecting gaps in text transcriptions. Does anyone in #DigiClass or beyond know of open transcriptions of ancient Greek inscriptions, in EpiDoc or otherwise, similar to papyri.info ? I've worked with literary texts and papyri, but I'm stumped on this.
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Added "Museo delle Statue Stele Lunigianesi" to "Very Clean URIs": wiki.digitalclassicist.org/Very_clean_U... #DigiClass #DigitalClassicist. #LAWDI
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Flyer for next Digital Classicist Seminar: 24 Oct, FRIDAY! "Evaluating Cuneiform in the World Wide Web: fantastic use cases and where to find them". Adam Anderson 16:15 CEST Hybrid at BBAW and on Zoom
Next (extraordinary) session of Digitcal Classicist: Tomorrow (Friday!), 24 Oct, 16:15 CEST. Adam Anderson speaks on "Evaluating Cuneiform in the World Wide Web: fantastic use cases and where to find them". Abstract and further info: digital-classicist.bbaw.de/programme/pr... #digiclass
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Flyer for next DC seminar: 21 Oct, 16:15 CEST. Julio C. Ruiz speaks about: "3D and Virtual Reality Technologies applied to Classical Sculpture: a review of methods, potential, and ongoing challenges" Hybrid: at BBAW and on Zoom.
Next session of Digitcal Classicist: Tomorrow, 21 Oct, 16:15 CEST. Julio C. Ruiz speaks about: "3D and Virtual Reality Technologies applied to Classical Sculpture: a review of methods, potential, and ongoing challenges" Abstract and further info: digital-classicist.bbaw.de/programme/pr... #digiclass
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Heute, 16 Uhr! Auftakt (hybrid) zum Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin mit Florian Thiery (Mainz) über "Citizen Science trifft Linked Open Data: Potenziale und Grenzen digitaler Methodik" digital-classicist.bbaw.de/programme/pr... #digiclass
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I look forward to working with you all, @geophilologist.bsky.social @tsommerschield.bsky.social and Ilaria (and the several other cool #DigiClass people already in Durham)!
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W00t!
Three fantastic people, who now make @durhamclassics.bsky.social one of the premier centres for digital classics in the world.
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This afternoon's #DigiClass #DigitalHumanities seminar will be livestreamed at youtu.be/mkuk6sflQjw (as well as in person in Senate House)
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Digital editions of classical texts for GLAMs
Chiara Senatore (La Sapienza, Roma)
Friday 25 July 2025, 17:00 BST
ics.sas.ac.uk/events/digit...
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And back to #DigiClass London:
Tomorrow: Ester Salgarella (Aarhus): Sort It, See It, Say It. Digital strategies to revive a Bronze Age Aegean Script
18 July 2025, 17:00 BST, in Senate House or stream live on Youtube: ics.sas.ac.uk/events/sort-...
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