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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P.J. Burns
@diyclassics.bsky.social
· Jul 14
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
I’ll be at #IANLS25 talking about *massive* Latin text repositories (so much Neo-Latin!) and prospects for training Latin LLMs
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—
Reposted by P.J. Burns
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
Reposted by P.J. Burns
*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...
Reposted by P.J. Burns
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...
Reposted by P.J. Burns
*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...
Giving a talk tomorrow (Th. 2/20 @ 4:30pm Eastern) at U. Cincinnati’s Taft Center called “The Digital Afterlife of a Dead Language: Or Recovering 34 Billion(!) Latin Words from AI Training Data”. Talk will be over Zoom as well—link to follow. There will be unicorns! diyclassics.github.io/afterlife/
February 19, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Giving a talk tomorrow (Th. 2/20 @ 4:30pm Eastern) at U. Cincinnati’s Taft Center called “The Digital Afterlife of a Dead Language: Or Recovering 34 Billion(!) Latin Words from AI Training Data”. Talk will be over Zoom as well—link to follow. There will be unicorns! diyclassics.github.io/afterlife/
Reposted by P.J. Burns
*NEW* post from the ISAW Library: Research round-up 2024. Come see what your friendly neighborhood ancient studies librarians have been up to over the past year. And yeah, that’s the right graphic @diyclassics.bsky.social @secret-terror.bsky.social isaw.nyu.edu/library/blog...
ISAW Library Research Digest 2024
An update about research by ISAW library staff in 2024.
isaw.nyu.edu
January 15, 2025 at 10:35 PM
*NEW* post from the ISAW Library: Research round-up 2024. Come see what your friendly neighborhood ancient studies librarians have been up to over the past year. And yeah, that’s the right graphic @diyclassics.bsky.social @secret-terror.bsky.social isaw.nyu.edu/library/blog...
#aiascs runners—headed out to the PMA steps tomorrow morning (Sun. 1/5), about 5K out-and-back. Will be in front of the lobby Christmas tree at 6:45am wearing a light blue winter hat if anyone wants to join.
January 5, 2025 at 2:00 AM
#aiascs runners—headed out to the PMA steps tomorrow morning (Sun. 1/5), about 5K out-and-back. Will be in front of the lobby Christmas tree at 6:45am wearing a light blue winter hat if anyone wants to join.
Here is a link to the NECJ “(Re)Active Latin” article on LLMs and teaching Latin through conversation that I mentioned during today’s talk #aiascs
New article in NECJ on the relationship between computational chat and active Latin: crossworks.holycross.edu/necj/vol51/i...
January 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Here is a link to the NECJ “(Re)Active Latin” article on LLMs and teaching Latin through conversation that I mentioned during today’s talk #aiascs
Reposted by P.J. Burns
Looking forward to Jackie Baines and my presentation at #AIASCS2025 on #GenAI images and the #AncientWorld!
Thanks to the Digital Classics Association for organizing the panel!
Thanks to the Digital Classics Association for organizing the panel!
January 4, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Looking forward to Jackie Baines and my presentation at #AIASCS2025 on #GenAI images and the #AncientWorld!
Thanks to the Digital Classics Association for organizing the panel!
Thanks to the Digital Classics Association for organizing the panel!
Starting in ~30 minutes… #aiascs
Anybody at #aiascs interested in learning more about LatinCy—esp. contributing to pipeline/model development—a coffee on me Fri. 1/3 @ 4:30pm at La Colombe (1414 S. Penn Square) #digiclass #nlproc
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
January 3, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Starting in ~30 minutes… #aiascs
Anybody at #aiascs interested in learning more about LatinCy—esp. contributing to pipeline/model development—a coffee on me Fri. 1/3 @ 4:30pm at La Colombe (1414 S. Penn Square) #digiclass #nlproc
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
January 2, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Anybody at #aiascs interested in learning more about LatinCy—esp. contributing to pipeline/model development—a coffee on me Fri. 1/3 @ 4:30pm at La Colombe (1414 S. Penn Square) #digiclass #nlproc
Reposted by P.J. Burns
Join us at Reading Classics for the next #GenAI and #AncientWorld Studies talk by @diyclassics.bsky.social (ISAW) on "The Impossibility of a Latin Turing Test: Reflections on Modeling Ancient Language at Scale", Nov. 6 from 4-5:30 PM (GMT). Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/3d6687...
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November 4, 2024 at 2:22 PM
Join us at Reading Classics for the next #GenAI and #AncientWorld Studies talk by @diyclassics.bsky.social (ISAW) on "The Impossibility of a Latin Turing Test: Reflections on Modeling Ancient Language at Scale", Nov. 6 from 4-5:30 PM (GMT). Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/3d6687...
If there’s anyone at #DH2024 interested in Latin NLP, and spec. getting involved with LatinCy development, I’ll be at today’s (Thursday) 3:30pm coffee break to answer questions, etc. #digiclass
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
August 8, 2024 at 11:57 AM
If there’s anyone at #DH2024 interested in Latin NLP, and spec. getting involved with LatinCy development, I’ll be at today’s (Thursday) 3:30pm coffee break to answer questions, etc. #digiclass
Reposted by P.J. Burns
New article in NECJ on the relationship between computational chat and active Latin: crossworks.holycross.edu/necj/vol51/i...
June 3, 2024 at 5:48 PM
New article in NECJ on the relationship between computational chat and active Latin: crossworks.holycross.edu/necj/vol51/i...
New article in NECJ on the relationship between computational chat and active Latin: crossworks.holycross.edu/necj/vol51/i...
June 3, 2024 at 5:48 PM
New article in NECJ on the relationship between computational chat and active Latin: crossworks.holycross.edu/necj/vol51/i...