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        Date: 2024-11-22 13:49:31+00:00
        From: Maria Papadopoulou <mpapado811@gmail.com>
        Subject: Call for Abstracts, Semantic Annotation for the Ancient World Conference, May 20-21, 2025 (University of Crete)

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the Call for Abstracts for the Conference
οn Semantic Annotation for the Ancient World, scheduled to take
place in Rethymno on May 20-21, 2025, is now open.

The deadline is February 1st, 2025.

Please submit an abstract of max. 1,000 words (bibliography excluded) via
EasyChair <https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=sa4aw>.

The conference is organised by the TALOS AI4SSH Centre of the University of
Crete (Horizon ERA Chair TALOS AI4SSH ID: 101087269) in collaboration with
the Department of Philology, University of Crete. See the announcement on TALOS
AI4SSH website
<https://talos-ai4ssh.uoc.gr/events-page/conferences/semantic-annotation-for-
the-ancient-world-conference/>.

Please feel free to distribute this Call for Abstracts broadly within your
networks.

Best wishes,

Maria Papadopoulou
Ass. Professor in Digital Humanities & Classics,
Dept. of Philology (University of Crete) & TALOS AI4SSH


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Call for Abstracts: Semantic Annotation for the Ancient World - SA4AW
May 20-21, 2025, in Rethymno, Crete (Greece)

Description

This conference will explore 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) labelling 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.

In order to further encourage the open exchange of ideas, the conference
will also include a round-table discussion. We welcome accepted
participants to suggest topics to discuss.

Conference proceedings will be published in open access online format.

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

Submission details:

We invite proposals from all scholars, junior and senior, working in the
topic areas of the conference.

Please submit an abstract of max. 1,000 words (bibliography excluded,
free format). Submissions will be reviewed via double-blind peer review
through EasyChair <https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=sa4aw> .

Paper presentations will be 20 minutes long, with extra time for questions
and discussion. The working language of the conference is English.

A longer version of accepted papers will be published in an edited volume
after the conference. More details about the edited volume are forthcoming.



Important dates:

1st announcement of the Call for abstracts
November 22nd, 2024

Deadline for submission
February 1st, 2025

Notification of acceptance to authors
February 20th, 2025 
Deadline for confirmation of participation
by accepted authors            
February 28th, 2025

Conference dates
May 20th-21st, 2025
Submission of camera-ready version
September 25th, 2025

Publication of edited volume
July 2026



For any further questions, please contact the organisers:

Maria Papadopoulou
Ass. Professor in Digital Humanities & Classics,
TALOSAI4SSH & Dept. of Philology (University of Crete)

Rachel Milio
Ph.D. candidate,
TALOS AI4SSH & Dept. of Philology (University of Crete)

================> She remembered a decade ago, when human coders still
outnumbered the AI agents. Her computer science curriculum had included 40%
of the courses focusing on how to work with AI agents and tools. Ethics
courses and discussions on automation's future were essential back then, as
humans were still the guiding force behind every algorithm. But now, AI was
everywhere, reshaping the landscape faster than ever imagined.

Giles Crouch


-----------------

Dr Maria Papadopoulou
Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities and Classics
Research Group Leader & Project Manager
HORIZON ERA CHAIR TALOS AI4SSH
Artificial Intelligence for the Humanities and the Social Sciences
https://talos-ai4ssh.uoc.gr/


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