✨Version bump✨ latincy-preprocess v0.4.0 Added Ancient Greek preprocessing features (based on @jtauber.com excellent greek-normalisation work!) github.com/latincy/lati...
Patrick J. Burns
@diyclassics.bsky.social
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
What should I curate/count/aggregate/visualize next in the Iliad & Odyssey?
Patrick J. Burns@diyclassics.bsky.social · 5d ago📝 New post, new series 📝 "Homeric Hapax Tables in Kumpf 1984" Quantified Homer post on a data/code reconstruction of the four summary tables in Kumpf’s 1984 book »Four Indices of the Homeric Hapax Legomena« exploratoryphilology.org/posts/kumpf-1984/ #digiclass
📝 New post, new series 📝 "Homeric Hapax Tables in Kumpf 1984" Quantified Homer post on a data/code reconstruction of the four summary tables in Kumpf’s 1984 book »Four Indices of the Homeric Hapax Legomena« exploratoryphilology.org/posts/kumpf-1984/ #digiclass
What should I curate/count/aggregate/visualize next in the Iliad & Odyssey?
Patrick J. Burns@diyclassics.bsky.social · 5d ago📝 New post, new series 📝 "Homeric Hapax Tables in Kumpf 1984" Quantified Homer post on a data/code reconstruction of the four summary tables in Kumpf’s 1984 book »Four Indices of the Homeric Hapax Legomena« exploratoryphilology.org/posts/kumpf-1984/ #digiclass
tl;dr—Is ἑτέρως a Homeric hapax? Is Ἀστύνοος a hapax? “Hapactic edge cases abound.”
Patrick J. Burns@diyclassics.bsky.social · 5d ago📝 New post, new series 📝 "Homeric Hapax Tables in Kumpf 1984" Quantified Homer post on a data/code reconstruction of the four summary tables in Kumpf’s 1984 book »Four Indices of the Homeric Hapax Legomena« exploratoryphilology.org/posts/kumpf-1984/ #digiclass
📝 New post, new series 📝 "Homeric Hapax Tables in Kumpf 1984" Quantified Homer post on a data/code reconstruction of the four summary tables in Kumpf’s 1984 book »Four Indices of the Homeric Hapax Legomena« exploratoryphilology.org/posts/kumpf-1984/ #digiclass
Back from the “Epic through Numbers” panel at CCC in Maynooth last week (and I’ve seen a movie!)—think I might start up a series of posts on… Quantified Homer…
Why not rely on an LLM for Latin vocabulary list generation? Some thoughts here on explainable/interpretable (computational) philology... exploratoryphilology.org/posts/introd...
Introducing… LatinCy Vocab – Exploratory Philology Blog
Introducing LatinCy Vocab, a Python package and spaCy component that turns plaintext Latin into pedagogically-aware, well-formatted vocabulary lists.
exploratoryphilology.org
Why not rely on an LLM for Latin vocabulary list generation? Some thoughts here on explainable/interpretable (computational) philology... exploratoryphilology.org/posts/introd...
Introducing… LatinCy Vocab – Exploratory Philology Blog
Introducing LatinCy Vocab, a Python package and spaCy component that turns plaintext Latin into pedagogically-aware, well-formatted vocabulary lists.
exploratoryphilology.org
📝 New post 📝 "Introducing... LatinCy Vocab" Background on a Python package and spaCy component that turns plaintext Latin into pedagogically-aware, well-formatted vocabulary lists exploratoryphilology.org/posts/introd... #digiclass #teachlatin
Introducing… LatinCy Vocab – Exploratory Philology Blog
Introducing LatinCy Vocab, a Python package and spaCy component that turns plaintext Latin into pedagogically-aware, well-formatted vocabulary lists.
exploratoryphilology.org
Patrick J. Burns@diyclassics.bsky.social · 2w ago🚀 New release 🚀 latincy-vocab v0.1.0 Build well-formatted Latin vocabulary lists from plaintext github.com/latincy/lati... #digiclass #teachlatin
📝 New post 📝 "Introducing... LatinCy Vocab" Background on a Python package and spaCy component that turns plaintext Latin into pedagogically-aware, well-formatted vocabulary lists exploratoryphilology.org/posts/introd... #digiclass #teachlatin
Introducing… LatinCy Vocab – Exploratory Philology Blog
Introducing LatinCy Vocab, a Python package and spaCy component that turns plaintext Latin into pedagogically-aware, well-formatted vocabulary lists.
exploratoryphilology.org
Patrick J. Burns@diyclassics.bsky.social · 2w ago🚀 New release 🚀 latincy-vocab v0.1.0 Build well-formatted Latin vocabulary lists from plaintext github.com/latincy/lati... #digiclass #teachlatin
🚀 New release 🚀 latincy-vocab v0.1.0 Build well-formatted Latin vocabulary lists from plaintext github.com/latincy/lati... #digiclass #teachlatin
🚀 New release 🚀 latincy-vocab v0.1.0 Build well-formatted Latin vocabulary lists from plaintext github.com/latincy/lati... #digiclass #teachlatin
✨Version bump✨ latincy-lexicon v0.9.0 Whitaker's Words as LatinCy component Improved handling of archaic & rare forms in both lookups and paradigms, fixes to irregular verbs, better future tense handling, beta Lewis & Short integration, etc. github.com/latincy/lati...
✨Version bump✨ txtdown v0.3.1 Minimal markup for Latin text collections Improved document validation; improved quotation handling; hierarchy-aware citations github.com/diyclassics/...
Late to posting this job: "Research Software Engineer in Data Science and Cultural Heritage". apply.interfolio.com/188823 And while it's not @isawnyu.bsky.social specific, we do have a great DH/Digital Archaeology community here and I look forward to welcoming whomever takes this position to NYU.
Teaching a course this fall at @isawnyu.bsky.social on text analysis for historical languages—course description here: diyclassics.github.io/isaw-f2026-g.... If you are at NYU (or a consortium program) and are interested, let me know. #TeachAncient #DigiClass
Text Analysis for Historical Language Research
Graduate course at ISAW (Fall 2026) introducing computational methods for historical-language research: Python-based text analysis & NLP via word embeddings, transformer models, and large language mod...
diyclassics.github.io
Made some LatinCy-based suggestions here—what else are people working with?
Alexander Winkler@awinkler.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy · 4mo agoQuestion for the #digitalclassics or #digital #neolatin crowd (and @diyclassics in particular, I guess): What would be the best semantic embedding models for (Neo-)Latin currently available?
Announcing—LatinCy Lexicon v0.1, a refactored version of Whitaker's Words that uses LatinCy annotations to disambiguate words/meanings. Can be added as a custom component to any LatinCy pipeline. github.com/latincy/lati... #digiclass #nlproc
From Whitaker's release notes... "Permission is hereby freely given for any and all use of program and data." Amazingly open license, allowing us to build cool stuff for Latin. And thanks also to Martin Keegan for hosting the maintenance of Words since 2015, cf. mk270.github.io/whitakers-wo...
Whitaker's Words: Introduction
William Whitaker's WORDS, a Latin dictionary
mk270.github.io
Patrick J. Burns@diyclassics.bsky.social · 4mo agoAnnouncing—LatinCy Lexicon v0.1, a refactored version of Whitaker's Words that uses LatinCy annotations to disambiguate words/meanings. Can be added as a custom component to any LatinCy pipeline. github.com/latincy/lati... #digiclass #nlproc
Also—hoping to implement genuine word sense disambiguation soon by combining this functionality with the LatinCy token vectors... getting there...
Patrick J. Burns@diyclassics.bsky.social · 4mo agoAnnouncing—LatinCy Lexicon v0.1, a refactored version of Whitaker's Words that uses LatinCy annotations to disambiguate words/meanings. Can be added as a custom component to any LatinCy pipeline. github.com/latincy/lati... #digiclass #nlproc
Announcing—LatinCy Lexicon v0.1, a refactored version of Whitaker's Words that uses LatinCy annotations to disambiguate words/meanings. Can be added as a custom component to any LatinCy pipeline. github.com/latincy/lati... #digiclass #nlproc
New blog post on the LatinCy v3.9 XPOS tags now up here: exploratoryphilology.org/posts/latinc... #digiclass #nlproc
Updating LatinCy XPOS Tags – Exploratory Philology Blog
With v3.9, the LatinCy pipelines introduce a new set of human-readable, Latin-specific XPOS tags designed to surface useful linguistic information not easily derived from other UD annotations.
exploratoryphilology.org
Patrick J. Burns@diyclassics.bsky.social · 4mo ago✨ LatinCy v3.9 sm/md/lg/trf pipelines for SpaCy available ✨ - Improved tokenization and u/v norm - New custom Latin-specific XPOS tags - Better, more consistent lemma/morph coverage huggingface.co/latincy/la_c... #digiclass #nlproc
New blog post on the LatinCy v3.9 XPOS tags now up here: exploratoryphilology.org/posts/latinc... #digiclass #nlproc
Updating LatinCy XPOS Tags – Exploratory Philology Blog
With v3.9, the LatinCy pipelines introduce a new set of human-readable, Latin-specific XPOS tags designed to surface useful linguistic information not easily derived from other UD annotations.
exploratoryphilology.org
Patrick J. Burns@diyclassics.bsky.social · 4mo ago✨ LatinCy v3.9 sm/md/lg/trf pipelines for SpaCy available ✨ - Improved tokenization and u/v norm - New custom Latin-specific XPOS tags - Better, more consistent lemma/morph coverage huggingface.co/latincy/la_c... #digiclass #nlproc
✨ LatinCy v3.9 sm/md/lg/trf pipelines for SpaCy available ✨ - Improved tokenization and u/v norm - New custom Latin-specific XPOS tags - Better, more consistent lemma/morph coverage huggingface.co/latincy/la_c... #digiclass #nlproc
Making "album" covers for the model releases now... This one has Catus — from "De cato seu fele" in Gesner's »Historiae animalium liber primus de quadrupedibus viviparis« (1551), p. 318 books.google.com/books?id=89P...
Patrick J. Burns@diyclassics.bsky.social · 4mo ago✨ LatinCy v3.9 sm/md/lg/trf pipelines for SpaCy available ✨ - Improved tokenization and u/v norm - New custom Latin-specific XPOS tags - Better, more consistent lemma/morph coverage huggingface.co/latincy/la_c... #digiclass #nlproc
✨ LatinCy v3.9 sm/md/lg/trf pipelines for SpaCy available ✨ - Improved tokenization and u/v norm - New custom Latin-specific XPOS tags - Better, more consistent lemma/morph coverage huggingface.co/latincy/la_c... #digiclass #nlproc
This has been a desideratum since the day we first published this model -- I'm so happy Patrick figured this out!
Patrick J. Burns@diyclassics.bsky.social · 5mo agoSo many of you have asked—happy to announce... Latin BERT v1 now available on HuggingFace 📦 Model: huggingface.co/latincy/lati... 📝 Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2009.10053 Original weights, experimental repackaging—leave issues/etc. in the HF discussions #nlproc #digiclass cc: @dbamman.bsky.social
So many of you have asked—happy to announce... Latin BERT v1 now available on HuggingFace 📦 Model: huggingface.co/latincy/lati... 📝 Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2009.10053 Original weights, experimental repackaging—leave issues/etc. in the HF discussions #nlproc #digiclass cc: @dbamman.bsky.social
latincy/latin-bert · Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
huggingface.co
So many of you have asked—happy to announce... Latin BERT v1 now available on HuggingFace 📦 Model: huggingface.co/latincy/lati... 📝 Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2009.10053 Original weights, experimental repackaging—leave issues/etc. in the HF discussions #nlproc #digiclass cc: @dbamman.bsky.social
latincy/latin-bert · Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
huggingface.co