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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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
New post—a quick overview of the UD Latin treebanks and how we are using them in LatinCy development... exploratoryphilology.org/posts/latinc... #LoveDataWeek
LatinCy Loves Data, Part 1: UD Latin Treebanks – Exploratory Philology Blog
The first in a five-part series highlighting key datasets behind LatinCy, starting with the six Universal Dependencies Latin treebanks and the LASLA corpus.
exploratoryphilology.org
February 13, 2026 at 9:46 PM
New post—a quick overview of the UD Latin treebanks and how we are using them in LatinCy development... exploratoryphilology.org/posts/latinc... #LoveDataWeek
Added a Greek corpus reader—with OdyCy support—back into LatinCy Readers for v1.2... github.com/diyclassics/...
February 13, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Added a Greek corpus reader—with OdyCy support—back into LatinCy Readers for v1.2... github.com/diyclassics/...
Send us your DCA2027 abstracts! Can’t wait to seeing what you all are working on…
Reminder that the SCS2027 Digital Classics Association panel CFP on "Experimental Contexts for Digital Classics" is out!
Send us your abstract by next Friday 2/20...
classicalstudies.org/annual-meeti...
Send us your abstract by next Friday 2/20...
classicalstudies.org/annual-meeti...
February 13, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Send us your DCA2027 abstracts! Can’t wait to seeing what you all are working on…
Reminder that the SCS2027 Digital Classics Association panel CFP on "Experimental Contexts for Digital Classics" is out!
Send us your abstract by next Friday 2/20...
classicalstudies.org/annual-meeti...
Send us your abstract by next Friday 2/20...
classicalstudies.org/annual-meeti...
February 9, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Reminder that the SCS2027 Digital Classics Association panel CFP on "Experimental Contexts for Digital Classics" is out!
Send us your abstract by next Friday 2/20...
classicalstudies.org/annual-meeti...
Send us your abstract by next Friday 2/20...
classicalstudies.org/annual-meeti...
Searching for any form of "magnus" followed by any noun—just one example of flexible pattern matching possible with LatinCy Readers `find_sents` call...
from this demo notebook: github.com/diyclassics/...
from this demo notebook: github.com/diyclassics/...
February 9, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Searching for any form of "magnus" followed by any noun—just one example of flexible pattern matching possible with LatinCy Readers `find_sents` call...
from this demo notebook: github.com/diyclassics/...
from this demo notebook: github.com/diyclassics/...
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
Registration link at diyclassics.github.io/latincy2026/ #digiclass #nlproc
February 5, 2026 at 7:43 PM
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
Registration link at diyclassics.github.io/latincy2026/ #digiclass #nlproc
Reposted by P.J. Burns
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
February 2, 2026 at 7:43 PM
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
Reposted by P.J. Burns
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
"Experimental Contexts for Digital Classics"
Submit your abstracts by February 20
classicalstudies.org/annual-meeti...
#digiclass
classicalstudies.org
February 2, 2026 at 8:58 PM
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
"Experimental Contexts for Digital Classics"
Submit your abstracts by February 20
classicalstudies.org/annual-meeti...
#digiclass
Reposted by P.J. Burns
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
diyclassics.github.io/latincy2026/...
Registration form available on the program site
February 2, 2026 at 11:17 PM
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
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
diyclassics.github.io/latincy2026/...
Registration form available on the program site
February 2, 2026 at 11:17 PM
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
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
"Experimental Contexts for Digital Classics"
Submit your abstracts by February 20
classicalstudies.org/annual-meeti...
#digiclass
classicalstudies.org
February 2, 2026 at 8:58 PM
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
"Experimental Contexts for Digital Classics"
Submit your abstracts by February 20
classicalstudies.org/annual-meeti...
#digiclass
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
February 2, 2026 at 7:43 PM
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
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
January 10, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Starting in about an hour! #aiascs
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...
January 8, 2026 at 10:56 PM
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...
Reposted by P.J. Burns
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
January 7, 2026 at 12:23 PM
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
Reposted by P.J. Burns
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
January 7, 2026 at 1:14 AM
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
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
January 7, 2026 at 12:23 PM
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—
ISAW and NYU Press are pleased to announce the #openaccess digital publication of ‘Ain el-Gedida: 2006-2008 Excavations of a Late Antique Site in Egypt's Western Desert (Amheida IV) by N. Aravecchia. Read the digitial edition: dlib.nyu.edu/awdl/isaw/id... More info here:
isaw.nyu.edu/library/blog...
isaw.nyu.edu/library/blog...
ISAW announces the digital publication of ‘Ain el-Gedida: 2006-2008 Excavations of a Late Antique Site in Egypt's Western Desert (Amheida IV)
The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and NYU Press are pleased to announce the open access digital publication of ‘Ain el-Gedida: 2006-2008 Excavations of a Late Antique Site in Egypt's We...
isaw.nyu.edu
January 6, 2026 at 10:55 PM
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—
*** Extension for LatinCy Developers/Users Meeting CFP... send proposals by Friday January 9, 2026 *** diyclassics.github.io/latincy2026/
December 31, 2025 at 3:49 PM
*** 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...
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...
Reposted by P.J. Burns
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...