TALOS-AI4SSH ERA Chair in Artificial Intelligence for Humanities and Social Sciences

Project Strategy

“ERA Chairs support universities or research organisations […] to attract and maintain high-quality human resources under the direction of an outstanding researcher and research manager (the ‘ERA Chair holder’), and to implement structural changes to achieve excellence on a sustainable basis.” Horizon Europe 2021-2022.   Thanks to the generous funding by the European Commission (ERA Chairs HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-TALENTS-01), the University of Crete will enhance its capacity building in the field of Digital Humanities. A new Center of Excellence will be established in Rethymnon: TALOS, named after the ancient robot/guardian of Crete. The activities of the Center will be led by Professor Christophe Roche, who has committed to put his long standing experience in Artificial Intelligence and Digital Humanities to the service of the UoC for the duration of the project (2023-2028).   The Center will propose innovative curricula for the students of the Faculty of Philosophy of UoC, will organise conferences, workshops, colloquia, open courses and seminars for targeted groups (academic community, students of the UoC, girls, society at large), will attract highly talented researchers to the UoC and will foster collaborations with other Centers in Greece and abroad.  

Working Packages

Management

WP1

Management

Research Management

WP2

Research

Training

WP3

Training

Visibility

WP4

Visibility

Meet the Team

The TALOS Centre team composed of a dynamic group of people who share the same vision, the chief members, the support team – made of faculty members and assistants – and the research team.

Our Vision

TALOS ERA Chair in AI for SSH will create and manage a new centre of excellence in explainable AI for SSH (Social Sciences and Humanities) that will interconnect several departments of UoC departments at Rethymnon (the Schools of Philosophy, Education and Social Sciences, coordinating department: Department of Philology) under a common research and teaching agenda.

Semantic technologies, such as Knowledge Graphs (KGs), are natively developed to be explainable. They are the modern implementations of Good old-fashioned Symbolic AI. TALOS will combine the strengths of neural networks with symbolic reasoning to create a scalable, sustainable and explainable  representation of knowledge in the Humanities and the Social Sciences.

TALOS ERA Chair will harness the power of AI systems that can learn from scholar’s annotations to add AI-enhanced data to the semantic layer of SSH Linked Open Data cloud.

Foster institutional reforms through research and teaching in the multidisciplinary area of AI for SSH.

Enhance the international visibility of the UCRC, grow networks, increase UoC success in international funding schemes, and lead to brain gain.

Attract and maintain an excellent team of researchers, scientists and scholars.

Address important research questions in hybrid (neurosymbolic) AI that drive innovation for SSH.

Create new open datasets and open-source tools for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences.

Disseminate new knowledge via conferences, workshops, articles, doctoral dissertations.

Focus on the vulgarization of new knowledge through global outreach initiatives.

Aims & Objectives

Latest News


🌟 Join Us for the Inaugural Lecture of the New Series!The TALOS Lab presents the first lecture of its series "Artificial Intelligence: Science, Society, and Education." 📚 Join us on November 11, 2024, at 19:30 at the “Xenia” Student Center for an insightful discussion on “Ethical Issues in Artificial Intelligence.” Can’t attend in person? Watch live on Zoom! More details here 👉 talos-ai4ssh.uoc.gr/open_lectures_ethics-and-ai/🎙 Speaker: Nikos Erinakis, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Crete💬 Discussant: Manolis Dafermos, Professor of Epistemology, Department of Psychology, University of Crete👥 Moderator: Eleni Katsarou, Professor, Department of Primary Education, University of Crete~🌟 Σας προσκαλούμε στην έναρξη της νέας σειράς διαλέξεων!Το Εργαστήριο ΤΑΛΩΣ εγκαινιάζει τη σειρά διαλέξεων “Τεχνητή Νοημοσύνη: Επιστήμη, Κοινωνία και Εκπαίδευση”. 📚 Σας περιμένουμε τη Δευτέρα, 11 Νοεμβρίου 2024, στις 19:30 στο Φοιτητικό Πολιτιστικό Κέντρο ΞΕΝΙΑ για μια ενδιαφέρουσα συζήτηση με θέμα: “Ηθικά ζητήματα στην Τεχνητή Νοημοσύνη.” Παρακολουθήστε ζωντανά και διαδικτυακά μέσω Zoom! Λεπτομέρειες εδώ 👉 talos-ai4ssh.uoc.gr/open_lectures_ethics-and-ai/🎙 Ομιλητής: Νίκος Ερηνάκης, Επίκουρος Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Φιλοσοφίας, Πανεπιστήμιο Κρήτης💬 Κριτικός συζητητής: Μανώλης Δαφέρμος, Καθηγητής Επιστημολογίας, Τμήμα Ψυχολογίας, Πανεπιστήμιο Κρήτης👥 Συντονίστρια: Ελένη Κατσαρού, Καθηγήτρια, Παιδαγωγικό Τμήμα Δημοτικής Εκπαίδευσης, Πανεπιστήμιο Κρήτης#AI #Ethics #TalosLab #UOC #standards #standardsforSSH #SSH #TALOSAI4SSH #UOC #crete #greece #AISocialInsights #HumanitiesTechBlend #DigitalSociology #EthicsInTech #SocialImpactAI

See MoreSee Less

View on Facebook


Big news! 📢 Join us for a hybrid two-hour hands-on workshop led by TALOS visiting scholar, Litao Lin 林立涛 (PhD candidate, Nanjing University) on Monday, Nov 11, 2024, at 14:30 (Greek time).🌟 Workshop Title: “Named Entity Recognition: Theory and Application”🕒 Time: 14:30-16:30 (Greek time)📍 Venue: UCRC conference room, Gallos Campus (Rethymno) & online (pre-registration needed for Zoom link)Dive into the theory and practical side of Named Entity Recognition (NER) and learn how to identify and classify entities in text using NLP techniques. 🧠✨ Custom model training and the use of the INCEpTION tool will also be covered.Find the link for registration and more info here: talos-ai4ssh.uoc.gr/hybrid-hands-on-workshop-by-litao-lin-phd-cand-nanjing-university/ Note: Install INCEpTION 34.2 beforehand. Materials is provided and you can download it from the link above. The session will be recorded and available for later viewing.#NER #NLP #HandsOnWorkshop #DigitalHumanities #AIinResearch #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #DigitalHumanities #DH #Talos #TalosUoC #ComputerScience #Semantics #SemanticAnnotationoftexts #digitalization #NLP #standards #standardsforSSH #SSH #TALOSAI4SSH #UOC #crete #greece #AISocialInsights #HumanitiesTechBlend #DigitalSociology #EthicsInTech #SocialImpactAI #TechMeetsCulture #AIHumanConnection #SocSciInnovation #DigitalEthnography #aiandsociety

See MoreSee Less

View on Facebook


Exciting news! Join us for a hybrid hands-on workshop led by PhD candidate Laura Soffiantini (KU Leuven) on Tuesday, Nov 12, 2024 at 14:30 (Greek time) 🏛✨🌟 Workshop Title: “Scraping Data from the Web. A Tutorial for Ancient Classicists and Ancient Historians”📍 Venue: Onsite at the UCRC conference room, Gallos Campus (Rethymno) & online (pre-registration required for Zoom link)-�🕒 Time: 14:30-16:30 (Greek time)Find the link for registration and more info here: talos-ai4ssh.uoc.gr/hybrid-hands-on-workshop-by-laura-soffiantini-phd-cand-ku-leuven/📚 Learn to use Python for web scraping and gather ancient texts for research! No prior coding experience needed—scripts and guidance provided.The session will be recorded and available via the TALOS channel.#AncientHistory #WebScraping #Classics #DigitalHumanities #PythonWorkshop #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #DigitalHumanities #DH #Talos #TalosUoC #ComputerScience #Semantics #SemanticAnnotationoftexts #digitalization #NLP #standards #standardsforSSH #SSH #TALOSAI4SSH #UOC #crete #greece #AISocialInsights #HumanitiesTechBlend #DigitalSociology #EthicsInTech #SocialImpactAI #TechMeetsCulture #AIHumanConnection #SocSciInnovation #DigitalEthnography #aiandsociety

See MoreSee Less

View on Facebook


🌟 Exciting News! Join us for two special events led by Dr. Silvia Piccini, senior researcher at CNR-IT:📚 Lecture: "Saussure’s Terminology: Formalizing a Paradigm Shift in Science on the Semantic Web"🗓 When: Monday, 4 November 2024, 20:30 (Greek time)📍 Where: Room 7, School of Philology, Gallos Campus, Rethymno🔗 Details: talos-ai4ssh.uoc.gr/lecture-by-dr-silvia-piccini-cnr-it/💻🤖 Hybrid Hands-on Workshop: "Hands-on with Protégé: Modeling Euclid’s Elements"🗓 When: Tuesday, 5 November 2024🕘 Time: 11:30-13:30 & 14:30-16:30 (Greek time)📍 Where: UCRC Conference Room, Gallos Campus, Rethymno & Online🔗 Details: talos-ai4ssh.uoc.gr/hybrid-hands-on-workshop-by-dr-silvia-piccini-cnr-it/👉 Note: Please have Protégé installed on your computer beforehand. Both sessions will be recorded and available on the TALOS channel.🔔 Don’t miss these opportunities to dive into the world of AI, computational lexicography, and the Semantic Web!#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #DigitalHumanities #DH #Talos #TalosUoC #ComputerScience #Semantics #SemanticAnnotationoftexts #digitalization #NLP #standards #standardsforSSH #SSH #TALOSAI4SSH #UOC #crete #greece #AISocialInsights #HumanitiesTechBlend #DigitalSociology #EthicsInTech #SocialImpactAI #TechMeetsCulture #AIHumanConnection #SocSciInnovation #DigitalEthnography #aiandsociety

See MoreSee Less

View on Facebook

Skip to content