Melina Tamiolaki and Melissa Bergoffen at UNESCO Club “Knossos” Event on AI and Cultural Heritage
Prof. Eleni Melina Tamiolaki and Melissa Bergoffen will participate in the UNESCO Club “Knossos” event on AI and cultural heritage on Saturday, 13 June 2026, in Heraklion. Their talk will present the TALOS programme and current research on digital cultural heritage, within a broader public event on AI, 3D modelling, augmented reality, and digital innovation for cultural and historical heritage.
TOTh 2026 Successfully Concluded in Chambéry
TOTh 2026 successfully concluded in Chambéry after four days of training, presentations, and international exchange at the intersection of terminology, ontology, and artificial intelligence. Organised by the University of Crete’s TALOS Lab in AI4SSH, the event featured a two-day pre-conference training, the 20th anniversary conference programme, presentations by TALOS members, and the Young Researcher Prize awarded to Giuliana Elizabeth Vilela Ruiz.
Methodology of Formally Representing Genre Terminology in Archaic Greek Lyric
On May 29–30, 2026, TALOS Lab member Rafail Giannadakis participated online in the international Romanian Colloquium, presenting a paper on the methodology of formally representing genre terminology in archaic Greek lyric. Using ALyrA (Archaic Lyrical Agora) as a case study, the talk discussed how the ontoterminology paradigm, TEDI software, and formalization function as a philological method to organize uncertainty.
TALOS at ISTAL27: Analyzing Literacy Models in Greek L1 Curricula Through NLP
TALOS Lab member Evangelos Katis attended the 27th International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (ISTAL27) in Thessaloniki to present a co-authored study by Evangelos Katis, Eleni Katsarou, Maria Tzanaki, and Eirini Daskalaki. The research utilizes Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools to analyze autonomous versus ideological literacy frameworks within the 2023 Greek L1 Curricula.
New book by Prof. Christophe Roche on Concept Theory and Terminology Marks the 20th Edition of TOTh!
As the 20th Anniversary Edition of the TOTh International Conference approaches, a major milestone of this anniversary year is the publication of Christophe Roche’s new book, “Une théorie du concept pour la terminologie.” The monograph revisits the conceptual foundations of terminology and offers a timely contribution to current discussions on ontoterminology, knowledge representation, and artificial intelligence.
TOTh 2026 Book of Abstracts Now Available—Opening talk by Danielle Candel (CNRS, Université Paris Cité)
The TOTh 2026 Book of Abstracts is now available, offering an overview of this year’s contributions to the 20th anniversary edition of the TOTh International Conference, to be held on 4–5 June 2026 at the University Savoie Mont Blanc and online. The programme will open with Danielle Candel’s lecture, “On the 20th Anniversary of the TOTh Conference,” while the AI terminology training led by Silvia Piccini, Christophe Roche, and Maria Papadopoulou will take place on 2–3 June 2026.
TALOS at TEDxUniversityofCrete 2026
On 9 May 2026, members of the TALOS AI4SSH team were present at TEDxUniversityofCrete, an event centered on ideas, creativity, and innovation within the academic community. Lefteris Zampoulakis, TALOS research assistant and undergraduate student in the Department of History and Archaeology, contributed as part of the organising committee, while Prof. Melina Tamiolaki, TALOS PI, also attended and delivered remarks. TALOS’s presence reflected its ongoing commitment to outreach, public engagement, and dialogue at the University of Crete.
Fotini Koidaki presented GeoAffect at the ISA-22 workshop at LREC 2026
Fotini Koidaki, TALOS PhD candidate in RT3: Corpus Analysis, presented the paper “GeoAffect: A Multi-Layer Annotation Schema and Few-Shot LLM Evaluation for Geoaffective Analysis of Literary Texts” at ISA-22, held within LREC 2026 in Palma de Mallorca. The paper introduced a multi-layer annotation schema for analysing how places are emotionally framed in literary narrative, applied to 19th-century Ionian prose fiction and evaluated on 13 large language models.
TALOS Invited Lecture: Cybersecurity and Citizen Science: Building Digital Resilience Together by Dr. Stavros Eleftherakis (NYU – Abu Dhabi)
TALOS Lab will host a hybrid invited lecture by Dr. Stavros Eleftherakis, Postdoctoral Researcher at NYU Abu Dhabi, on Tuesday, 19 May 2026, at 14:30 Athens time. The lecture, titled “Cybersecurity and Citizen Science: Building Digital Resilience Together,” will take place at the TALOS Conference Room, Building Γ, KEME/UCRC, Rethymno, and online. The talk will explore everyday cybersecurity threats, digital resilience, privacy-preserving collaboration, and the role of citizen science in identifying suspicious digital behaviour.
Maria Papadopoulou at the UoC–NUAA Online Academic Exchange Event
On 5 May 2026, Maria Papadopoulou participated in the Online Academic Exchange Event between the University of Crete and Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, where she delivered the presentation “From Nanjing to Rethymno: AI, Philology, and Cross-Cultural Knowledge.” Her contribution formed part of a broader online programme of presentations and discussions that brought together scholars from both institutions around language, AI, and interdisciplinary research.