The TALOS Centre is excited to announce that the full program for the 2nd Semantic Annotation for the Ancient World (SA4AW) Conference is now available! Join us on May 7–8, 2026, online via Zoom or onsite at the Student and Cultural Center “Xenia” (Rethymno, Crete), for a hybrid event exploring the critical intersection of semantic annotation, hybrid AI approaches, Large Language Models (LLMs), and knowledge graphs in the study of antiquity and cultural heritage.

We are thrilled to feature two outstanding keynote speakers:
–Annie Lamar (UC Santa Barbara, USA), presenting on “Low-Resource Languages and Epistemic Justice.”
–Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller (RMIT University, Australia), presenting on “Oh LAWD, oh LAWD, oh LAWD: Reflections on Linked Ancient World Data projects.”

The two-day schedule is packed with engaging presentations across five main sessions: Corpus Linguistics, Fine-tuning and Vectorization, Annotation Workflows, Annotating Material Culture, and Human-in-the-loop Annotation. Topics range widely—from LLM-assisted analysis of early Arabic poetry and spatial Graph-RAG for Nile Valley infrastructure, to multimodal AI for Greek cultural objects and the semantic modeling of Latin documents. We are proud to host an international lineup of scholars representing institutions across the USA, Australia, the UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Belgium, Poland, Czechia, and Israel.

Attend Online for Free!
Virtual attendance is open to the public and completely free of charge. We invite researchers, students, and anyone interested in the digital humanities to join the conversation. Pre-registration via Zoom is required to receive the meeting link.

The SA4AW 2026 conference is organized by the TALOS Centre in AI4SSH (University of Crete) in collaboration with the Department of Philology.