The following schedule runs Tuesday to Friday June 25-28, 2024.
Day 1 - Preliminaries: Text Transformation & the Future of Philology
09:00-09:30
Arrivals
09:30-10:00
Welcome and introductions
10:00 – 11:00
Session 1 - Digitization: How Texts Become Machine-Readable
How do texts become machine-readable? What is the role of libraries, repositories and archival collections in the digital age? How do research infrastructures support this new kind of scholarship?
Session 2 - Working with Machine-Readable Text: Foundations for Greek NLP
Topics covered will include: acquiring corpora, lemmatizing, tagging, classifying, quantification, corrections
Facilitators: Christine Roughan and John Pavlopoulos
12:30 – 2pm
Lunch break
2-3:30pm
Session 3 - Introduction to Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing: From Word Embeddings to ChatGPT
A gentle introduction to key concepts of modern NLP, including word embeddings, Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), Transformers, encoder-decoder models. It will also provide examples of applications, such as information extraction from documents, filtering toxic posts on social media, legal judgment prediction, machine translation, image captioning, and code generation.
Facilitator: Ion Androutsopoulos
3:30 – 4:30
Questions and Discussion
Day 2 - Techniques and Technologies for Analyzing Text
09:30 – 10:45
Session 1 - Text Extraction/HTR
Facilitators: Christine Roughan, Maria Konstantinidou, John Pavlopoulos
10:45 – 11am
Break
11 – 12:15
Session 2 - Text encoding - XML TEI/Epidoc
Facilitator: Christine Roughan
12:15 – 1:45pm
Lunch break
1:45 – 3pm
Session 3 - NLP for Scholarship: Filling Gaps in Ancient Texts. Examples from the Ithaca and Logion projects
Facilitators: Nikitas Tampakis and John Pavlopoulos
3 – 7pm
Group trip to the National Library of Greece
Tour of the Manuscripts Department. Group dinner for participants to follow.
Day 3 - Digging in Deeper and Project Work
09:30 – 10:00
Session 1 - Group discussion and ideas for small-group or individual project work
10 – 12:30
Session 2 - small group meetings or individual consultations
12:30 – 2pm
Lunch break
2 – 4:30
Session 3 - small group meetings or individual consultations
Day 4 - Presentations and Wrap Up
9:30 – 10:45am
Session 1 Participant demos/presentations (6 people; up to 10 mins each)
10:45 – 11am
Break
11:00 – 12pm
Session 2 - Participant demos/presentations (5 people; up to 10 mins each)