The 19th International TOTh Training and Conference, held onsite and online from June 3–6, 2025, at the Université Savoie Mont Blanc (France), brought together an engaged international community for a week of learning, exchange, and discovery at the intersection of terminology, ontology, and artificial intelligence.

An International Event
This year’s edition gathered 92 participants from 18 countries—Austria, Belgium, Cameroon, Canada, China, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Korea, Madagascar, Morocco, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. The event kicked off with a two-day training, followed by two full days of conference presentations and discussions.

Hands-On Training: Knowledge Graphs, LLMs & RAG
The week began with a two-day training session on “Generating Knowledge Graphs with LLMs, Prompt Engineering, and RAG”, held on June 3–4. With 57 attendees joining both onsite and online, the session provided deep theoretical and practical insight into how Large Language Models and Retrieval-Augmented Generation can support terminological work—especially through the lens of historical corpora and ancient texts.
Participants worked with texts by Aristotle, Pseudo-Aristotle, Pseudo-Plato, Vergil to extract terminology and build structured knowledge graphs using tools such as Neo4j, Cypher, and the LLM Graph Builder. Special emphasis was placed on prompt engineering, translation challenges, and addressing hallucinations in generative AI.
A warm thank you to all the participants for their curiosity and engagement—and special recognition to the instructors Dr. Laure Berti-Equille, Rafail Giannadakis, and Rachel Milio, as well as the organizers Prof. Maria Papadopoulou and Prof. Christophe Roche, for crafting an inspiring and technically rich learning experience.

Conference Highlights:
The main conference followed on June 5–6, with 64 attendees participating in presentations that spanned fields including corpus linguistics, ontology, knowledge engineering, machine learning, and the semantic web.
The event opened with an engaging keynote by Vincent Nyckees titled Nos langues nous trompent-elles ? Du topos de l’imperfection des langues aux concepts de « travail de langue » et de « synchronisation », which explored linguistic imperfection and the synchronization of meaning—a perfect prologue to the diverse academic dialogue that followed.
Notable contributions included a presence from the TALOS – AI for SSH project, with talks by Dimitris Billianos, Rafail Giannadakis, Rachel Milio, Tonia Lourentzaki, Maria Papadopoulou, and Vaggelis Katis, reflecting the vibrancy and depth of interdisciplinary AI research.

Awards of Excellence

Two distinguished prizes were awarded at the close of the conference:

  • 🏅 Young Researcher Prize: Gloria Zanella (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy)
    “La métaphore en diachronie courte entre astrophysique et vulgarisation. Une étude comparable en français et italien sur les trous noirs et les planètes extrasolaires.”
  • 🏆 Best Paper Award: Stéphane Carsenty (Swiss National Bank, Switzerland)
    “Interoperability and Reusability of a Multilingual Terminology Resource on an Institutionalised Domain: the Balance of Payments.”

Looking Forward

With generous support from the University of Crete, Université Savoie Mont-Blanc, and numerous institutional partners, TOTh 2025 once again affirmed its role as a vibrant hub for knowledge sharing and collaborative progress in language, technology, and the humanities. A heartfelt thank you to all participants, presenters, organizers, and sponsors who helped make this edition a memorable success. We look forward to continuing the conversation at TOTh 2026!
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