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ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

FOCUS AND SCOPE

The Semantic Annotation for the Ancient World conference focuses on methods, standards, and tools for the semantic annotation of historical, literary, and cultural heritage materials.

WE WELCOME CONTRIBUTIONS RELATING TO

  • Ontology-based models and frameworks for semantic annotation
  • Methods for multilingual and cross-lingual semantic annotation of historical and literary corpora
  • Automatic, semi-automatic, and assisted annotation pipelines, including annotation interfaces and workflow design
  • Semantic enrichment of texts and images through entity recognition, linking to controlled vocabularies, and ontology alignment
  • Use of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI for annotation, enrichment, disambiguation, and knowledge extraction
  • Human–AI collaborative annotation strategies, including expert validation, iterative refinement, and quality control
  • Integration of annotated corpora with Knowledge Graphs and Linked Open Data ecosystems
  • Computational philology approaches that rely on or produce semantically enriched corpora
  • Digital Classics and Cultural Heritage infrastructures supporting annotation, curation, and data interoperability
  • Ethical and epistemological considerations in AI-supported semantic annotation, including transparency, provenance, and interpretability

POLICY &   ETHICS

PERIODICITY

The Semantic Annotation for the Ancient World is an annual conference.
Proceedings are published after the completion of the peer review process.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright remains with the authors.

OPEN ACCESS POLICY

All conference proceedings will be published in open access, free for authors and readers.
No article processing charges (APCs) apply.
Published content may be reused in accordance with the Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license.

PEER REVIEW POLICY

All submitted papers undergo double-blind peer review by at least two independent reviewers.
Reviewers evaluate submissions based on:
• Scholarly contribution
• Methodological soundness
• Originality
• Clarity and relevance to the conference themes
Decisions include: accept, accept with revisions, revise and resubmit, or decline.
Final editorial decisions are taken by the Scientific Committee.

PUBLICATION ETHICS

Submissions must be unpublished and not under review elsewhere. The conference follows internationally recognized standards of publication ethics (e.g., COPE guidelines, NIST).
Authors must ensure their work is original and properly cited.
Any detected plagiarism, data fabrication, or ethical violation results in rejection.
Authors are recommended to use the CRediT taxonomy to indicate each author’s contribution. Upon final submission, authors should assign one or more of the 14 CRediT roles to each contributor (e.g., Conceptualization; Data Curation; Writing – Original Draft; Writing – Review & Editing). This provides transparent attribution of contributions and is published with the paper.

USE OF AI TOOLS

Authors must disclose any use of AI-assisted tools (e.g., text generation, translation, image creation, code suggestion) in the preparation of their submission. Such tools may be used to support writing or analysis, but they cannot be listed as authors, and authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, and integrity of the work. Any AI use should be briefly described in the acknowledgements or methods section.USE OF AI TOOLS

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EDITORIAL BOARD / SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

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1st SA4AW, May 20-21, 2025

Semantic Annotation for the Ancient World Conference 2025

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2nd SA4AW, May 7 - 8, 2026

Semantic Annotation for the Ancient World Conference 2026

The next conference will take place on May 7 – 8, 2026 in Rethymno, Crete, Greece. See more in conference’s page.

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