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We thank our sponsors Google DeepMind, Vesuvius Challenge and Athena Research Center, all the authors presenting their papers, our Program Committee for their outstanding work. We received the highest number of workshop submissions at ACL2024! 💎 A huge thank you to my co-organisers John Pavlopoulos and Yannis Assael, we made a splendid team!
Visit the ML4AL official website for more information.

1st CfP for the Machine Learning for Ancient Languages workshop: ML4AL is co-located at ACL and will take place on 15 Aug. 2024 in Bangkok, Thailand & hybrid. Submissions tackling Machine Learning for texts in any language, script or medium from 3400 BCE to late first millennium CE are welcome. Deadline: May 17th, 2024 11:59pm, UTC-12 (anywhere on Earth).
Visit the ML4AL official website for the full CfP.

Last week my Marie Curie project PythiaPlus came to a close. These 2 years have flown by, and I'm incredibly grateful to the EU Commission, to my mentors and collaborators around the world, and to Venice for being such a magical city to live and explore.
You can find the project's results here and the MSCActions kind feature as Fellow of the Week here.

Please consider signing and sharing this Change.org petition for supporting and expanding the Packard Humanities Institute's Greek Inscriptions Database (PHI)! PHI is a crucial, freely accessible resource for epigraphers, and should be continuously supported and expanded to include digital epigraphic publication standards, rich metadata and new evidence.

I am absolutely thrilled to have been awarded a Leverhulme ECF at the University of Nottingham starting in January 2024.
Looking forward to returning to the UK to join a fantastic department and work on a new research project!

One year since Ithaca was published, we were invited by the National Hellenic Research Foundation and the Epigraphic Museum of Athens to talk about how our tool is being used by historians today. Here is the event invite.

I am incredibly honoured to have been awarded the Ghislieri Prize by my undergraduate college in Pavia!

I presented our work on Ithaca at Congrès International d'Épigraphie Grecque et Latine 2022 (CIEGL) in Bordeaux, and immensely enjoyed catching up with fellow epigraphists at the conference.

On the cover of Nature today, our work Ithaca on restoring, locating and dating Greek inscriptions using deep neural networks.
Read the OA article here, use the free online interface for your personal research at ithaca.deepmind.com, and watch the video filmed by Nature.

Today I moved to Venice to begin my Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship on the project PythiaPlus at Ca' Foscari University of Venice!

Incredibly grateful to have been awarded the Premio "Giuseppe Nenci" 2020 for my doctoral thesis on ancient Sicily by the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and Donnafugata srl.