Semantic Annotation for the Ancient World Conference 2025
May 20 & 21, 2025
Student and Cultural Center XENIA, Nikolaou Psarrou 46, Rethymno, Crete
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Onsite & Online (via Zoom) participation
Submit abstracts (750-1000 words) at the EasyChair by February 15th 2025
The conference explores the contribution of semantic annotation, along with that of hybrid AI, deep learning, and knowledge graphs to ancient world studies. Semantic annotation is the process of tagging or (manually or automatically) labeling pieces of content—such as words, phrases, or objects in texts or images—with meaningful metadata to provide context and clarify meaning. Semantic annotation allows machines to process the meaning and relationships of content within a dataset, transforming raw data into structured knowledge. For example, a machine can recognize that “Athens” is a city, distinguish it from the other cities with the same name, and link it to related concepts, which improves ability to perform tasks like searching, or making inferences. By tagging concepts, entities, and relations, semantic annotation enables machines to interpret and process data more accurately, connecting data points across software, allowing for better searchability, advanced queries and further reuse via natural language processing and machine learning.
Through this conference, we hope to foster collaboration and intellectual exchange amongst digital scholars of the ancient world. According to the principles of FAIR and Linked Open Data, we strive to promote openness and accessibility in all of the workflows and methods presented at the conference.
Submissions
Submit abstracts (750-1000 words) at the EasyChair by February 15th.
The conference is organised by the TALOS AI4SSH Lab of the University of Crete (Horizon ERA Chair TALOS AI4SSH ID: 101087269) in collaboration with the Department of Philology, University of Crete.
We encourage proposals on the following themes
- Ontology-driven semantic annotation
- Standardisation
- Multilingual annotation practices
- Automatic and semi-automatic annotation
- Annotation of ancient geography
- FAIR/LOD data
- Semantic Web
- NER for ancient Greek/Latin
- RDF-based digital editions
- Methods, tools, and platforms
We encourage proposals on the following themes
Ontology-driven semantic annotation
Standardization
Multilingual annotation practices
Automatic and semi-automatic annotation
Annotation of ancient geography
FAIR/LOD data
Semantic Web
NER for ancient Greek/Latin
RDF-based digital editions
Methods, tools, and platforms