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


🤖 🖥️ TALOS toolkit 🖥️ 🤖The “19th century Greek 8.0” OCR model.Description: The “19th Century Greek 8.0” is an OCR model tailored for recognizing 19th and 20th-century Greek prints. Developed on the Transkribus platform, it is part of a series of models focused on the digitization of 19th-century Greek Literature. Built using the largest ground-truth dataset to date, this model is now publicly available for anyone working on Greek literary texts.Created by: Fotini CoidakisSee more: www.transkribus.org/model/19th-century-greek-8.0#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

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👩‍💻🧑‍💻Call for a PhD researcher in Digital Archaeology! 👩‍💻🧑‍💻The research team of the ERA Chair "TALOS- Artificial Intelligence for the Humanities and the Social Sciences" is excited to announce that it looks forward to receiving applications from potential candidates interested in doing their PhD within the RT2 "Classifying and Naming Objects" (Digital Archaeology)! Call in English: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/278877 Call in Greek: www.elke.uoc.gr/news/post/9775 #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #DigitalHumanities #DH #Talos #TalosUoC #ComputerScience #Semantics #DigitalArchaeology #Archaeology #PhDCall #standards #standardsforSSH #SSH #TALOSAI4SSH #UOC #crete #greece #AISocialInsights #HumanitiesTechBlend #DigitalSociology

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🤖 🖥️ TALOS datasets 🖥️ 🤖Part 4️⃣: “ALyrA ontoterminology”Description: The version 1.0 of the “ALyrA ontoterminology” (i.e., ‘a terminology whose conceptual system is a formal ontology’, Roche 2007) focuses on modelling Archaic Lyric poets (799-430 BCE). AlyrA stands for “Archaic Lyrical Agora”.Created by: Rafail Giannadakis Supervision: Dr. Maria Papadopoulou See more: talos-ai4ssh.uoc.gr/resources/open-datasets/open-dataset-2-ancient-lyric-poetry-alyra-ontology/#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

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🧑‍🏫 1st PhD meeting: Rachel Milio 🧑‍🏫The TALOS PhD meetings let students discuss key papers and present their work. The first features Rachel Milio discussing the recently published paper “Semantic Precision: Crafting RDF-based Digital Editions for Unveiling the Layers of Historical Correspondence” (Alassi & Rosenthaler, 2024).See more here: talos-ai4ssh.uoc.gr/events/1st-phd-meeting/#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

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