Program

9:00-10:30 Session 1

- Opening remarks
- Paper presentations:

• Towards Context-aware Normalization of Variant Characters in Classical Chinese Using Parallel Editions and BERT Florian Kessler
• Ancient Wisdom, Modern Tools: Exploring Retrieval-Augmented LLMs for Ancient Indian Philosophy Priyanka Mandikal ★ outstanding paper
• A new machine-actionable corpus for ancient text restoration Will Fitzgerald, Justin Barney
• Lacuna Language Learning: Leveraging RNNs for Ranked Text Completion in Digitized Coptic Manuscripts Lauren Elizabeth Levine, Cindy Tung Li, Lydia BremerMcCollum, Nicholas E. Wagner, Amir Zeldes
• A deep learning pipeline for the palaeographical dating of ancient Greek papyrus fragments Graham West, Matthew I. Swindall, James H. Brusuelas, Francesca Maltomini, Marius Gerhardt, Marzia D’Angelo, John F. Wallin
• Coarse-to-Fine Generative Model for Oracle Bone Inscriptions Inpainting Shibin Wang, Wenjie Guo, Yubo Xu, Dong Liu, Xueshan Li ★ outstanding paper

10:30-11:00 Coffee and poster session 1

- Poster presentations:

• Exploring intertextuality across the Homeric poems through language models Maria Konstantinidou, John Pavlopoulos, Elton Barker
• The Metronome Approach to Sanskrit Meter: Analysis for the Rigveda Yuzuki Tsukagoshi, Ikki Ohmukai
• UD-ETCSUX: Toward a Better Understanding of Sumerian Syntax Kenan Jiang, Adam G Anderson
• Adapting transformer models to morphological tagging of two highly inflectional languages: a case study on Ancient Greek and Latin Alek Keersmaekers, Wouter Mercelis
• "Gotta catch `em all!": Retrieving people in Ancient Greek texts combining transformer models and domain knowledge Marijke Beersmans, Alek Keersmaekers, Evelien de Graaf, Tim Van de Cruys, Mark Depauw, Margherita Fantoli

11:00-12:30 Session 2

- Keynote #1
- Paper presentations:

• Classification of Paleographic Artifacts at Scale: Mitigating Confounds and Distribution Shift in Cuneiform Tablet Dating Danlu Chen, Jiahe Tian, Yufei Weng, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Jacobo Myerston
• Latin Treebanks in Review: An Evaluation of Morphological Tagging Across TimeMarisa Hudspeth, Brendan O’Connor, Laure Thompson
• Leveraging Part-of-Speech Tagging for Enhanced Stylometry of Latin Literature Sarah Li Chen, Patrick J. Burns, Thomas J Bolt, Pramit Chaudhuri, Joseph P. Dexter
• SumTablets: A Transliteration Dataset of Sumerian Tablets Cole Simmons, Richard Diehl Martinez, Dan Jurafsky
• UFCNet: Unsupervised Network based on Fourier transform and Convolutional attention for Oracle Character Recognition Yanan Zhou, Guoqi Liu, Yiping Yang, Linyuan Ru, Dong Liu, Xueshan Li
• Long Unit Word Tokenization and Bunsetsu Segmentation of Historical Japanese Hiroaki Ozaki, Kanako Komiya, Masayuki Asahara, Toshinobu Ogiso

12:45-13:45 Lunch break

14:00-15:30 Session 3

- Keynote #2
- Paper presentations:

• CuReD: Deep Learning Optical Character Recognition for Cuneiform Text Editions and Legacy Materials Shai Gordin, Morris Alper, Avital Romach, Luis Daniel Saenz Santos, Naama Yochai, Roey Lalazar
• Neural Lemmatization and POS-tagging models for Coptic, Demotic and Earlier Egyptian Aleksi Sahala, Eliese-Sophia Lincke
• Challenging Error Correction in Recognised Byzantine Greek John Pavlopoulos, Vasiliki Kougia, Esteban Garces Arias, Paraskevi Platanou, Stepan Shabalin, Konstantina Liagkou, Emmanouil Papadatos, Holger Essler, Jean-Baptiste Camps, Franz Fischer ★ outstanding paper
• MsBERT: A New Model for the Reconstruction of Lacunae in Hebrew Manuscripts Avi Shmidman, Ometz Shmidman, Hillel Gershuni, Moshe Koppel
• Deep Learning Meets Egyptology: a Hieroglyphic Transformer for Translating Ancient Egyptian Mattia De Cao, Nicola De Cao, Angelo Colonna, Alessandro Lenci
• Classifier identification in Ancient Egyptian as a low-resource sequence-labelling task Dmitry Nikolaev, Jorke Grotenhuis, Haleli Harel, Orly Goldwasser

15:30-16:00 Coffee and poster session 2

- Poster presentations:

• Detecting Narrative Patterns in Biblical Hebrew and Greek Hope McGovern, Hale Sirin Ryan, Tom Lippincott, Andrew Caines
• Restoring Mycenaean Linear B 'A&B' series tablets using supervised and transfer learning Katerina Papavassileiou, Dimitrios Kosmopoulos
• Application of Machine Learning to the Critical Edition of Ancient Greek Inscriptions: Ithaca and the Corpus of Oracular Inscriptions of Dodona Elena Martín González
• A Dataset for Metaphor Detection in Early Medieval Hebrew Poetry Michael Toker, Oren Mishali, Ophir Münz-Manor, Benny Kimelfeld, Yonatan Belinkov
• Predicate Sense Disambiguation for UMR Annotation of Latin: Challenges and Insights Federica Gamba

16:00-17:30 Session 4

- Panel with Dr. Stephen Parsons and Prof. Benjamin Roth
- Best paper award
- Closing remarks