P.J. Burns

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

latincy (LatinCy) Latin, natural language processing

Thanks! The LatinCy pretrained spaCy pipelines for Latin are available here: huggingface.co/latincy. LatinCy Readers is a corpus reader project that supports various types of common text collections/formats and applies (at least by default) the la_core_web_lg pipeline at runtime

Working on it… I’ll try to get a “quick start” & some other intro resources online by Friday

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

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...

#digiclass

Program now available for the LatinCy Developers/Users Meeting (now fully remote!) on Feb. 27, 2026...

diyclassics.github.io/latincy2026/...

Registration form available on the program site

Program now available for the LatinCy Developers/Users Meeting (now fully remote!) on Feb. 27, 2026...

diyclassics.github.io/latincy2026/...

Registration form available on the program site

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...

#digiclass

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

Starting in about an hour! #aiascs

Patrick Burns standing with the ISAW Monographs book table

Recent publications from the ISAW Monographs series

Stop by the ISAW Monographs / NYU Press table in the #AIASCS Book Exhibit—let’s talk about texts, archaeology, art history, and material culture inter alia isaw.nyu.edu/publications...

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

Five slides.

My #AIASCS talk is "Roman Art within Afroeurasia" as part of the panel "Still Defining Roman Art" org'd by P. de Staebler and Anne Hrychuk Kontokosta. It's a series of five minute talks then discussion. Here are my very few slides in miniature form. Friday at 2PM. Come if you can. #AIASCS2026

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

Took my experience using @quarto.org for coding documentation and applied it to an archaeological problem… one of my main 2025 projects, happy to see it out in the world—

And as always happy to defer to locals & SF runners on route specifics, etc.

Any plans for #AIASCS group run next week? Up for a 5K early Thursday morning and a longer run on Sunday if anyone is interested.

*** Extension for LatinCy Developers/Users Meeting CFP... send proposals by Friday January 9, 2026 *** diyclassics.github.io/latincy2026/

Proposals for the LatinCy Developers/Users Meeting due next week, Dec. 30...

Reminder that we are hosting the first LatinCy Developers/Users Meeting this February (and it's also a third "birthday" for the pipelines!)...

It has been so great working with Chris Forstall and Berenice Verhelst (and the many contributors within) over the last few years, including conference stops at Universität Rostock & Mt. Allison University. Congrats to the editors—happy to see this out in the world...

Have a chapter on "quantitative dialogism" in this open-access Brill volume on »Direct Speech in Greek and Latin Epic« brill.com/display/book...

Have a chapter on "quantitative dialogism" in this open-access Brill volume on »Direct Speech in Greek and Latin Epic« brill.com/display/book...

I'm thrilled to report that the Perseus Digital Library has been selected for a 2025 Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI) award from @schmidtsciences.bsky.social! Read more about our plans here (sites.tufts.edu/perseusupdat...).
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2026 Humanities and Artificial Intelligence Virtual Institute (HAVI) RFP - Schmidt Sciences Overview  [Read the full RFP] Schmidt Sciences is requesting proposals to the Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI), aimed at fostering research in the digital humanities with a particular focus ...

New grant program announcement: You've heard me talk this morning about those 23 new DH awards from @schmidtsciences.bsky.social HAVI program? Well, we just announced our new RFP for 2026! Teams can be global too! Please consider applying. RFP here: www.schmidtsciences.org/opportunity/...

Schmidt Sciences awards $11M in grants to bring AI to humanities research - Schmidt Sciences Contact: Carlie Wiener; cwiener@schmidtsciences.org NEW YORK—Schmidt Sciences has awarded $11 million for up to 23 teams of researchers around the world to develop and apply artificial intelligence to...

Big congrats to these 23 projects that just won awards from the @schmidtsciences.bsky.social HAVI program! Please spread the word. (NB I've been helping the HAVI team on this program. This is a broad slate of terrific DH projects!) www.schmidtsciences.org/havi-2025-an...

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

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

Happy to share that the “Fourth Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages” has been accepted! See you at #LREC2026!
#LT4HALA2026 #NLProc

circse.github.io/LT4HALA/2026/

(1/2) 🎉 New preprint: "Contextual Morphologically-Guided Tokenization for Latin Encoder Models"
w/ @diyclassics.bsky.social @brenocon.bsky.social