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Two broader developments in computational archaeology are worth flagging for the community. **[PCI Archaeology](https://archaeo.peercommunityin.org/){:target="_blank"}** (Peer Community in Archaeology) is a free, open peer-review platform for archaeology preprints, operating independently of traditional journals. Authors upload papers to Zenodo, submit them to PCI Archaeology for open peer review, and — upon recommendation — can publish in the CAA Proceedings, *JCAA*, or any PCI-friendly journal, or simply leave the paper as a peer-reviewed preprint. This model is now the official peer review pathway for the **[CAA 2026 proceedings](https://2026.caaconference.org/proceedings/){:target="_blank"}** (Vienna); the complete abstract booklet from the conference is already [available online](https://2026.caaconference.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2026/03/Paper_complete-abstract-booklet.pdf){:target="_blank"}.
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## Table of Contents
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- [Recent Academic Publications](#recent-academic-publications)
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- [Special Mention](#special-mention)
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- [Datasets Published](#datasets-published)
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- [Events](#events)
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- [Talks and Conferences](#talks-and-conferences)
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- [Training Opportunities](#training-opportunities)
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- [Call for Papers](#call-for-papers)
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- [Fellowships, Scholarships, and Job Opportunities](#fellowships-scholarships-and-job-opportunities)
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[![img](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DigitalPasts/DANES-newsletter/main/Jun2026/cdlb-2026-1-001.jpg)](https://cdli.earth/articles/cdlb/2026-1){:target="_blank"}
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## Recent Academic Publications
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**[Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026)](https://lrec.elra.info/conference/2026/main){:target="_blank"} (conference proceedings, LREC 2026), edited by Stelios Piperidis et al.**, gathered 944 papers on language resources and evaluation, presented 11–16 May 2026 in Palma, Mallorca. All papers are available through the proceedings link above. The following papers from the main track are of direct relevance to DANES:
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* **[Ancient Greek to Modern Greek Machine Translation: A Novel Benchmark and Fine-Tuning Experiments on LLMs and NMT Models](https://doi.org/10.63317/4cdk64dgm2w9){:target="_blank"}**, by Spyridon Mavromatis, Sokratis Sofianopoulos, Prokopis Prokopidis, and Maria Giagkou
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* **[Automatic Suggestions of Supplements in the Herculaneum Papyri: Language Models and RESTful API](https://doi.org/10.63317/3httqkjtey6v){:target="_blank"}**, by Angelo Mario Del Grosso, Gabriele Giannessi, Simone Zenzaro, and Federico Boschetti
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* **[Gretino: A Greek and Latin Dataset to Benchmark Retrieval Systems in Classical Languages](https://doi.org/10.63317/3ipryhrqmwvi){:target="_blank"}**, by Hawau Olamide Toyin, Federico Iezzi, Elia Scapini, Giulio Federico, and Giovanni Puccetti
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* **[The Patrologia Graeca Corpus: OCR, Annotation, and Open Release of Noisy Nineteenth-Century Polytonic Greek Editions](https://doi.org/10.63317/2gvtaxwvjtc7){:target="_blank"}**, by Chahan Vidal-Gorène and Bastien Kindt
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* **[PREMOVE in LiLa: Integrating Latin Preverbed Motion Verbs with WordNet and VerbNet](https://doi.org/10.63317/3ifm66wvmf86){:target="_blank"}**, by Andrea Farina, Marco Passarotti, Francesco Mambrini, Matteo Pellegrini, Eleonora Litta, and Giovanni Moretti
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* **[RAGE: Roman and Greek Emotions](https://doi.org/10.63317/5dgh2dbex43c){:target="_blank"}**, by Frederick Riemenschneider, Jonathan D. Geiger, Thomas Kuhn-Treichel, and Anette Frank
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* **[Semantic Alignment across Ancient Egyptian Language Stages via Normalization-Aware Multitask Learning](https://doi.org/10.63317/3v9kjvq9f3qp){:target="_blank"}**, by He Huang
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The proceedings also include the **[Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages (LT4HALA 2026)](http://lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2026/workshops/lt4hala/2026.lt4hala-1.0.pdf){:target="_blank"}**, edited by Marco Passarotti and Rachele Sprugnoli. They brought together 29 papers on natural language processing (NLP) for historical and ancient languages. The workshop also hosted EvaLatin, an evaluation campaign on dependency parsing and named entity recognition for Latin. All papers are available through the proceedings link above. The following are of direct relevance to DANES:
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* **Classificatio Sine Iactu – That Is, Zero-Shot NERC in Latin**, by Luisa Ripoll-Alberola, Fernando Nicolás-Flores, and Francisco Javier Muñoz Acebes
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* **Contextual Probing for Low-Resource Named Entity Recognition in Latin**, by Maria Mihaela Trusca, Mark Depauw, Violet Soen, Ine de Daele, Kevin Verbruggen, and Tim Van de Cruys
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* **Extending omnes flores for the EvaLatin 2026 Dependency Parsing Tasks**, by Hiroshi Matsuda and Masayuki Asahara
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* **Overview of the Dependency Parsing Task at EvaLatin 2026**, by Federica Iurescia, Marco Passarotti, and Rachele Sprugnoli
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* **Overview of the Named Entity Recognition Task at EvaLatin 2026**, by Valeria Irene Boano, Eleonora Litta, and Matteo Romanello
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* **THIVLVC: Retrieval Augmented Dependency Parsing for Latin**, by Luc Pommeret, Thibault Wagret, and Jules Deret
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* **Transfer Learning for Named Entity Recognition of Classical Latin through LLM Prompting**, by Callum Chan
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* **UppsalaNLP at EvaLatin 2026: Multilingual Parsing for Latin**, by Sara Stymne
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* **Across Generations: A Comparative Analysis of NER for Latin Inscriptions from Classical Machine Learning to LLMs**, by Wenhui Cui and Phillip Benjamin Ströbel
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* **A Layered Annotation Workflow for Semitic Epigraphy**, by Tal Bernstein, Shai Gordin, and Letizia Cerqueglini
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* **A New State-of-the-Art BERT Model for Judeo-Arabic**, by Elisha Rosensweig, Yitzchak Lindenbaum, Hillel Gershuni, Vered Raziel-Kretzmer, Daniel Caine, and Avi Shmidman
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* **BEReshiT: an Ancient Hebrew Model based on DictaBERT**, by Iglika Nikolova-Stoupak, Maxime Amblard, and Frédérique Rey
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* **Building a Corpus and Database for Rare and Undeciphered Scripts**, by Beata Megyesi, Rune Rattenborg, Benedek Láng, Michelle Waldispühl, and Mihály Héder
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* **Cost-Aware Pre-Annotation Strategies for Nested NER in Historical Latin Notarial Deeds**, by Charlene Ellul, Vanessa Buhagiar, Claudia Borg, and Charlie Abela
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* **Domain-Aware Error Correction for Citation NER in Medieval Hebrew Responsa**, by Shmuel Liebeskind, Maayan Zhitomirsky-Geffet, Binyamin Katzoff, Nati Ben-Gigi, and Jonathan Schler
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* **Evaluating Hierarchical Aggregation and LLM-Based Matching for Synset Selection in Ancient Greek**, by Luca Brigada Villa, Marco Passarotti, Chiara Zanchi, Riccardo Ginevra, Erica Fratellini, and Eleonora Litta
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* **From Lemmas to Links: A Lemma Bank for Ancient Greek**, by Colin Swaelens, Francesco Mambrini, and Marco Passarotti
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* **From Lemmatization to Legal Terminology: Assessing a Hybrid Pipeline on Justinian's Digest**, by Paola Marongiu and Eva Sassolini
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* **I, RE:Claudius 256: Towards Linking Classical Latin Person Mentions to a Domain-specific Knowledge Base**, by Marijke Beersmans, Evelien de Graaf, Julie Nijs, Valeria Irene Boano, Alek Keersmaekers, Mark Depauw, Tim Van de Cruys, and Margherita Fantoli
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* **Language Models for the Restoration of Latin Legal Manuscripts**, by Shibingfeng Zhang, Edoardo Caraffa, Annafelicia Zuffrano, Maddalena Modesti, and Giovanni Colavizza
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* **Neural Machine Translation for Coptic-French: Strategies for Low-Resource Ancient Languages**, by Nasma Chaoui and Richard Khoury
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* **The UD_Latin-PROIEL as Linked Open Data: Integrating a Latin Treebank into the LiLa Knowledge Base**, by Lucas Consolin Dezotti, Marco Passarotti, Federica Iurescia, and Giovanni Moretti
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The **[Digital Classics Online](https://doi.org/10.11588/dco.2026.12.2){:target="_blank"}** journal has released a new thematic issue (vol. 12.2, 2026) on *Nomina Omina: Ancient Greek and Latin Proper Names in the Age of Artificial Intelligence*, edited by Monica Berti. The issue focuses on named entity recognition (NER), annotation, and linked open data (LOD) approaches to proper names--personal names, place names, and divine names--across ancient Greek, Latin, and related corpora. Articles include:
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The **[Historical Network Research Conference 2026 (HNR2026)](https://historicalnetworkresearch.github.io/turin/){:target="_blank"}** will take place **20–22 July in Turin, Italy**. This year's theme, *Networks and their Sources*, focuses on the opportunities and limitations that historical sources — archival documents, archaeological remains, correspondence, print media, and others — present for formal network research. The program includes 38 long papers and 26 short papers across 20 sessions, 2 keynotes, a round table, and a pre-conference nodegoat workshop. Sessions span a wide range of periods and methods, including Middle Kingdom Egypt and co-occurance networks in Ancient Greek and Latin text. A free pre-conference workshop on historical network analysis using [nodegoat](https://nodegoat.net/){:target="_blank"} will be led by its creators Pim van Bree and Geert Kessels (**separate registration required** via [this form](https://forms.gle/3cdVbiHLoJKF8SVdA){:target="_blank"}). **Attendance is free; [conference registration](https://hnr2026.sciencesconf.org/registration){:target="_blank"} is required**.
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**[DH2026](https://dh2026.adho.org/){:target="_blank"}** is the 36<sup>th</sup> annual conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO), taking place **July 27–31, 2026** at the Daejeon Convention Center in **Daejeon, South Korea and online**, around the theme of "Engagement." The full program is available as an [interactive agenda](https://dh2026.adho.org/program-agenda/){:target="_blank"} and [printable PDF](https://dh2026.adho.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/DH2026_Main_Conference_Program.pdf){:target="_blank"}; registration is open via the [conference website](https://dh2026.adho.org/conference-registration/){:target="_blank"}. Of particular interest to the DANES community is the [AI4AS 2026 (AI for Ancient Studies)](https://ai4asconference.github.io/2026/){:target="_blank"} mini-conference on **July 27**, which critically examines the opportunities and risks that generative AI introduces into the study of ancient non-alphabetic languages, with a focus on the methodological vulnerabilities of low-resourced corpora, LLM distortion of primary sources, and the development of responsible-use guidelines for AI in ancient language research. [Registration for remote participation](https://dh2026.adho.org/pre-conference-events/){:target="_blank"} in the workshop is available and **free of charge**.
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The **[Connected Past 2026](https://connectedpast.net/other-events/toronto-2026/){:target="_blank"}** conference will take place **22–25 September at the University of Toronto, Canada**. The conference focuses on network science and theory applied to archaeology and history, covering topics including past spatial and social networks, mobility and connectivity, incomplete data in network studies, multivariate methods, and communities of practice. The program opens with a **network science workshop** (capped at 25 participants) covering practical methods in RStudio, Gephi, and Visone, followed by two and a half days of paper and poster sessions. [Registration](https://the-connected-past-2026.bloomtickets.ca/event/575?TheConnectedPast2026){:target="_blank"} is open; **early bird rates** (until 30 June) are CA$125 for regular and CA$75 for students; late registration (until 21 August) is CA$150 and CA$90 respectively.
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The **[H-Net Spaces Cohort Program](https://networks.h-net.org/group/pages/20064279/spaces-cohort-program){:target="_blank"}** is offered by [H-Net (Humanities and Social Sciences Online)](https://www.h-net.org/){:target="_blank"}, a free scholarly infrastructure platform hosting interdisciplinary networks, discussion lists, and open-access digital projects for the global humanities and social sciences community. The Cohort Program supports scholars in building open-access digital projects on the H-Net Commons platform, with a particular focus on early-stage projects and scholars seeking hands-on training in digital humanities methods. Accepted participants receive up to **$500 in seed funding**, hands-on training in digital project development, monthly training and co-working sessions, and the opportunity to present their completed project at a virtual roundtable at the end of the cohort cycle. The program especially welcomes proposals from early career scholars, graduate students, contingent faculty, and interdisciplinary or multimodal projects. H-Net Spaces provides tools for uploading and organizing digitized documents, media, and data, with support for visualizations including timelines, GIS maps, and image libraries. The program accepts 4–5 projects per year. **Applications are due 1 July 2026**, with decisions communicated by early August; apply via the [application form](https://networks.h-net.org/group/pages/20064279/spaces-cohort-program){:target="_blank"}.
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**[EPC Treebank Training School: Annotating Earlier and Classical Egyptian Texts](https://giepropias.ujaen.es/index.php?r=site%2Fficha-curso&id_estudio=2158){:target="_blank"}** is a free online training school running **September 1–11, 2026** (Monday–Friday, 17:00–19:00 Madrid time), aimed at postgraduate students. Participants learn to annotate Earlier and Classical Egyptian texts within the [EPC Treebank](https://web.ujaen.es/investiga/nile-in-contact/EPC_en.html){:target="_blank"} using the Universal Dependencies (UD) framework, directly contributing new material to the treebank (currently 3,089 sentences from the Pyramid Texts); credited annotators receive a certificate upon completion. Admission is selective: submit a CV and motivation statement (max 500 words) proposing a text for annotation to [radiaz@ujaen.es](mailto:radiaz@ujaen.es). **Applications open June 1–July 7, 2026.**
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The **[Journal of Open Humanities Data (JOHD)](https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/collections/weathering-the-storm){:target="_blank"}** is accepting submissions for a Special Collection titled **Weathering the Storm: Opportunities and Challenges in Data Rescue and Safeguarding**, focused on the preservation of humanities data under threat from funding cuts, censorship, conflict, cybersecurity risks, and AI-driven data pollution. The collection invites contributions from researchers, librarians, archivists, curators, and data stewards on topics including digitisation of at-risk physical materials, institutional and community safeguarding initiatives, methods for protecting data against disinformation and cyberattack, financial sustainability, and ethical considerations around indigenous knowledge and curatorial bias. Both short data papers (1,000–1,500 words) describing specific rescued or at-risk datasets, and longer discussion papers (3,000–5,000 words) on methods and challenges in data rescue and safeguarding, are welcome. Publication fees apply, with waivers available. Abstracts of up to 300 words should be submitted via [this form](https://forms.gle/toExcB7zX5dxxFQa7){:target="_blank"}. Expression of interest deadline was 31 May 2026, but the form is still receiving abstracts; **full papers are due 7 September 2026**.

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