The NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, the Center for Humanities, the Division of Libraries, the Center for Ancient Studies, and the Department of Classics present
Future Philologies: Digital Directions in Ancient World Text
Friday, April 20, 2018
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, Second Floor Lecture Hall
15 East 84th Street
212.992.7800
Introduction
9:30am - The 'Point' of Future Philologies
Patrick J. Burns (ISAW)
Keynote
10:00am - Annotating Heresies
Caroline Schroeder (Pacific/Coptic Scriptorium)
Ancient World Text and Digital Corpora
Moderator: Emily Cole (ISAW)
11:15am - Digital Philology 2.0, Smart Editions, and the Future of Work
Gregory Crane (Tufts/Leipzig)
12:00pm - Analyzing the History of Formal Written Arabic
Alexander Magidow (URI) and Yonatan Belinkov (MIT)
12:45pm - Lunch
Ancient World Text and Digital Methods
Moderator: Sebastian Heath (ISAW)
1:45pm - Accessible Digital Text Analysis for Classical Chinese
Donald Sturgeon (Harvard)
2:30pm - Machine Translation for the Sumerian language: Workflow and Pre-Requisites
Émilie Pagé-Perron (Toronto/MTAAC)
Ancient World Text: Responses from Computer Science
3:45pm - The Next 700 Classical Languages
Kyle P. Johnson (Accenture), on historical text and natural language processing
4:15pm - Authorship and Translation: Bilingual Modeling of the Patrologia Graeca
David Mimno and Laure Thompson (Cornell) on historical text and information retrieval
4:45pm - Viral Texts and Networked Authors: Computational Models of Information Propagation
David Smith (Northeastern) on historical text and machine learning
This conference is free and open to the public, but registration is required at: isaw.nyu.edu/rsvp
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Future Philologies: Digital Directions in Ancient World Text
