P.J. Burns
@diyclassics.bsky.social
Associate Research Scholar, Digital Projects @ ISAW Library | prev. Quantitative Criticism Lab (UT-Austin) & Culture, Cognition, Coevolution Lab (Harvard) | Fordham PhD, #Classics | #DigiClass, #Latin, #Greek | LatinCy dev, CLTK contrib | #Python
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LatinCy Developers/Users First Annual Meeting
Announcing the LatinCy First Annual Meeting
diyclassics.github.io
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
CFP for presentations on LatinCy applications/projects available here: diyclassics.github.io/latincy2026/ #digiclass #nlproc
Proposals for the LatinCy Developers/Users Meeting due next week, Dec. 30...
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
CFP for presentations on LatinCy applications/projects available here: diyclassics.github.io/latincy2026/ #digiclass #nlproc
LatinCy Developers/Users First Annual Meeting
Announcing the LatinCy First Annual Meeting
diyclassics.github.io
December 22, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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!)...
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December 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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...
December 15, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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...
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Have a chapter on "quantitative dialogism" in this open-access Brill volume on »Direct Speech in Greek and Latin Epic« brill.com/display/book...
December 15, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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...
December 15, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Have a chapter on "quantitative dialogism" in this open-access Brill volume on »Direct Speech in Greek and Latin Epic« brill.com/display/book...
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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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Perseus Digital Library Updates » News and announcements from the Perseus Digital Library
sites.tufts.edu
December 12, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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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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/...
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 ...
www.schmidtsciences.org
December 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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/...
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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...
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...
www.schmidtsciences.org
December 11, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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...
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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
CFP for presentations on LatinCy applications/projects available here: diyclassics.github.io/latincy2026/ #digiclass #nlproc
LatinCy Developers/Users First Annual Meeting
Announcing the LatinCy First Annual Meeting
diyclassics.github.io
December 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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
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
CFP for presentations on LatinCy applications/projects available here: diyclassics.github.io/latincy2026/ #digiclass #nlproc
LatinCy Developers/Users First Annual Meeting
Announcing the LatinCy First Annual Meeting
diyclassics.github.io
December 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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
CFP for presentations on LatinCy applications/projects available here: diyclassics.github.io/latincy2026/ #digiclass #nlproc
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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/
#LT4HALA2026 #NLProc
circse.github.io/LT4HALA/2026/
LT4HALA
Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages (LT4HALA)
circse.github.io
December 5, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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/
#LT4HALA2026 #NLProc
circse.github.io/LT4HALA/2026/
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(1/2) 🎉 New preprint: "Contextual Morphologically-Guided Tokenization for Latin Encoder Models"
w/ @diyclassics.bsky.social @brenocon.bsky.social
w/ @diyclassics.bsky.social @brenocon.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
(1/2) 🎉 New preprint: "Contextual Morphologically-Guided Tokenization for Latin Encoder Models"
w/ @diyclassics.bsky.social @brenocon.bsky.social
w/ @diyclassics.bsky.social @brenocon.bsky.social
Starting 1 hour—
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
#dh #digitalhumanities #dnls
July 16, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Starting 1 hour—
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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
#dh #digitalhumanities #dnls
July 14, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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
#dh #digitalhumanities #dnls
July 14, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I’ll be at #IANLS25 talking about *massive* Latin text repositories (so much Neo-Latin!) and prospects for training Latin LLMs
Reposted by P.J. Burns
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
#dh #digitalhumanities #dnls
July 13, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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
#dh #digitalhumanities #dnls
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*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
Internships and volunteer opportunities
Information about internships and other volunteer opportunities in the Library of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University.
isaw.nyu.edu
April 3, 2025 at 8:47 PM
*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
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
📦Models: huggingface.co/latincy
🌌Universe: https://spacy.io/universe/project/latincy
📝Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2305.04365
#NLProc #DigiClass
March 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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
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
📦Models: huggingface.co/latincy
🌌Universe: https://spacy.io/universe/project/latincy
📝Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2305.04365
#NLProc #DigiClass
March 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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
March 21, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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...
diyclassics.github.io
March 21, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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...
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Deadline for DCA panel at SCS2026 on “Collaboration in a Digital World” soon approaching (Mon. 3/3)… www.classicalstudies.org/annual-meeti...
Collaboration in a Digital World: Expanding the Boundaries of Classical Studies (Digital Classics Association) | Society for Classical Studies
Society of Classical Studies 157th Annual MeetingJANUARY 7-10, 2026SAN FRANCISCO Call for Papers for Panel Sponsored by the Digital Classics Association “Collaboration in a Digital World: Expanding th...
www.classicalstudies.org
February 28, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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...
Collaboration in a Digital World: Expanding the Boundaries of Classical Studies (Digital Classics Association) | Society for Classical Studies
Society of Classical Studies 157th Annual MeetingJANUARY 7-10, 2026SAN FRANCISCO Call for Papers for Panel Sponsored by the Digital Classics Association “Collaboration in a Digital World: Expanding th...
www.classicalstudies.org
February 28, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Deadline for DCA panel at SCS2026 on “Collaboration in a Digital World” soon approaching (Mon. 3/3)… www.classicalstudies.org/annual-meeti...
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*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...
ISAW Library Internship Report: Developing a Linguistic Dataset of Latin Works by Women
ISAW Library Intern Lily Hegener recounts her contributions to the “Representing Women Authorship in the Latin Treebanks” (RWALT) pilot project during the Fall 2023 semester.
isaw.nyu.edu
February 3, 2025 at 3:28 PM
*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...