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.
Program Announced: 20th International Conference TOTh
The full program for the 20th International TOTh Conference (Terminology & Ontology) is now available! Join us on June 4-5, 2026, onsite in France or online, to explore the exciting intersection of traditional terminology and cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence, including LLMs and the Semantic Web. We are also offering a hands-on pre-conference training on June 2-3 titled “Bringing Artificial Intelligence to Terminology.” Don’t miss this landmark 20th-anniversary event featuring an international lineup of experts. Download the program and register today to secure your spot!
2nd SA4AW Conference: Program Announced & Registration Open
The TALOS Lab is excited to announce the full program for the 2nd Semantic Annotation for the Ancient World (SA4AW) Conference! Join us on May 7–8, 2026, online via Zoom or onsite in Rethymno, Crete, for a hybrid event exploring the critical intersection of semantic annotation, Large Language Models, and artificial intelligence in studying antiquity. We invite researchers, students, and the public to register now for free virtual attendance.
TALOS 6th Hybrid PhD Meeting – TALOS AI4SSH Doctoral Seminar 2026
The TALOS Lab announces the 6th TALOS PhD Meeting, taking place in hybrid format on 28 April 2026 in Rethymno and online. The meeting brings together TALOS researchers presenting work across digital humanities, archaeology, literature, education, and computational approaches, followed by discussion and feedback exchange among peers.
Online Research Seminar Series by the Division of Classics: Stamatis Bouses on the ‘DMC Lexi’ Project and the Lexicon of Cyril
The Division of Classical Studies at the University of Crete invites you to a virtual lecture by Stamatis Bouses on Friday, April 24, 2026, as part of its research seminar series “Friday Online Meetings”. Delivered in Greek, the lecture will explore the “DMC Lexi” project and its systematic digital approach to identifying the “Lexicon of Cyril.” Pre-registration is required to attend.
1st Call for Project Concept Notes – MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026
The TALOS Lab at the University of Crete invites researchers to submit concept notes for a fully funded, two-year MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship in Digital Humanities! Dr. Maria Papadopoulou (TALOS Lab Director) will host an online bootcamp on May 15, 2026, to help promising candidates develop their proposals blending AI with the social sciences and humanities.