Stavroula Konstantopoulou, a PhD candidate in Classical Philology at the University of Valladolid, is visiting the TALOS Lab to work on the integration of AI methods into the study of Greek inscriptions and archival material. During her stay, she focuses on AI-assisted textual restoration, Handwritten Text Recognition, and TEI/EpiDoc workflows, in close collaboration with TALOS researchers and within the framework of the Dodona Travels to Ithaca project. This visit is funded by the University of Valladolid. See more for her BIO and stay here.

Dr Liu Hui 刘翚 (Luisa), associate professor at the College of Foreign Languages, NUAA (Nanjing, China), is visiting TALOS and UoC (Rethymno) until the end of March. Dr. Liu’s research interests include AI-assisted terminology and translation studies. During her visit, Dr. Liu will deliver lectures on a collaborative project focusing on ancient philosophers from Greece and China and will work with TALOS members to organize a joint UoC-NUAA symposium scheduled for early March. This visit is funded by NUAA. See Luisa’s short biography.

Dr. Silvia Piccini, Senior Researcher, ILC-CNR (Italy) (November 2024). See Silvia’s short biography and planned activities during her research stay.

Laura Soffiantini, PhD candidate, KU Leuven. Laura works on the geographic representation of Greece in Pliny the Elder’s Naturalis Historia. See Laura’s short biography and planned activities during her research stay.

Litao Lin, PhD candidate, Nanjing University (China) Research stay funded by Nanjing University (August-November 2024).
Project title: Organization and Application Model of Semantic Knowledge in Chinese Ancient Geography Text

Professor Laure Berti Research Director (DR1) in Data Analytics and Applied Artificial Intelligence at IRD, the French research institute on Sustainable Development (May 2024)
See Laure’s workshop materials: “Using LLMs to build a Knowledge Graph”

Diego Canali, Master’s student in Philology, Literature and Classical tradition (matr. no. 1007015), University of Bologna (Italy). Thesis advisor: Prof. Francesca Tomasi (Research Stay: Sept-Dec 2023, financed by the Department of Classical and Italianistic Philology (FICLIT), University of Bologna, Italy)
See Diego’s Final Report and presentations:
• “Critical Apparatus Ontology”
• “Digital Critical Editions: Defining a workflow”