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P.J. Burns
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Associate Research Scholar, Digital Projects @ ISAW Library | prev. Quantitative Criticism Lab (UT-Austin) & Culture, Cognition, Coevolution Lab (Harvard) | Fordham PhD, #Classics | #DigiClass, #Latin, #Greek | LatinCy dev, CLTK contrib | #Python
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Presenting at #ianls25 on…

“Neo-Latin as a Pragmatic Source of Language Model Training Data”

This morning (16 Jul) @ 10:30am, Egger 011
Program contents for IANLS DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY IV Special Session Chair: Carolin A. Giere 10.00 am - 10.30 am GRABSKA-GRADZINSKA Iwona and WIATER Mateusz "Neolatina Sarmatica - How Programming Languages can Revive Interest in Latin Texts" 10.30 am - 11.00 am BURNS Patrick "Neo-Latin as a Pragmatic Source of Language Model Training Data" 11.00 am - 11.30 am CECCHINI Flavio Massimiliano "The Tongueprint: Assessing and Quantifying Bilingualism in Renaissance Neo-Latin Texts"
July 16, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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Giving a talk tomorrow (Th. 2/20 @ 4:30pm Eastern) at U. Cincinnati’s Taft Center called “The Digital Afterlife of a Dead Language: Or Recovering 34 Billion(!) Latin Words from AI Training Data”. Talk will be over Zoom as well—link to follow. There will be unicorns! diyclassics.github.io/afterlife/
Woodcut of a unicorn from Gesner’s Historiae Animalium
February 19, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Talking about LLM prompts and Latin teaching/research on this morning’s DCA panel at 8am (Sat. 1/4) in Salon K/Hybrid #aiascs #scs40
8:00am- 10:30am, Salon K (Hybrid) SCS-40: HYBRID: Opening Up Classics with Al (organized by the Digital Classics Association) Neil Coffee, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Organizer 1. Neil Coffee, University at Buffalo, SUNY Introduction 2. Samuel Huskey, University of Oklahoma Opening Up Bottlenecks in Digital Classics Workflows with Human-in-the-Loop Al 3. Patrick Burns, New York University Prompt Engineering for Latin Teachers 4. Edward Ross, University of Reading, and Jackie Baines, University of Reading Generative Image Al and Teaching Classics: A Case of Exaggeration 5. Gregory Crane, Tufts University Al, Machine Actionable Publication and Assigning Credit 6. Joseph Dexter, Harvard University, and Pramit Chaudhuri, University of Texas at Austin Benchmarking Generative Al Models for Classical Literary Criticism
January 4, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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New article in NECJ on the relationship between computational chat and active Latin: crossworks.holycross.edu/necj/vol51/i...
Abstract for "(Re)active Latin" article in new issue of NECJ
June 3, 2024 at 5:48 PM
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Introducing LatinCy... Trained spaCy pipelines for Latin NLP...

📦Models: huggingface.co/latincy
🌌Universe: https://spacy.io/universe/project/latincy
📝Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2305.04365

#NLProc #DigiClass
Card for LatinCy at spaCy Universe website, inc. code example for how to install and run the pipeline on a sample Latin sentence.
August 8, 2023 at 11:14 PM