Published papers
Forthcoming, 2024 Thea Sommerschield, Stefano Vassallo
“Adaptation and Synthesis: Exploring local engagement with Greek mythology and epigraphy
in the Sicilian hinterland”.
In Archaeopress.
In press, 2024 Thea Sommerschield
“Iscrizioni su anfore greco-occidentali a Himera”.
In B. Bechtold & S. Vassallo (eds.), Produzioni e circolazione delle anfore greco-occidentali (VI-V sec. a.C.): il contributo dalle necropoli di Himera. BABESCH Supplement 49. Peeters - Leuven. 135-146.
2023 Thea Sommerschield, Stefano Vassallo
“Le storie di Eracle narrate a Terravecchia di Cuti: un nuovo louterion iscritto”.
In Sicilia Archeologica, 114: 33-47.
2023 Thea Sommerschield,* Yannis Assael,* John Pavlopoulos,* Vanessa Stefanak, Andrew Senior, Chris Dyer, John Bodel, Jonathan Prag, Ion Androutsopoulos, Nando de Freitas [*co-first authors]
“Machine Learning for ancient languages: A survey”.
In Computational Linguistics, MIT Press: 1-44. Available here.
2022 Yannis Assael,* Thea Sommerschield,* Brendan Shillingford, Mahyar Bordbar, John Pavlopoulos, Marita Chatzipanagiotou, Ion Androutsopoulos, Jonathan Prag & Nando de Freitas [*co-first authors]
"Restoring and attributing ancient texts with deep neural networks".
In Nature, 603(7900): 280–283. Cover issue of 10 March 2022. Available here.
2021 Jonathan Prag, Thea Sommerschield
"Sicilia epigrafica: dai depositi alla valorizzazione".
In R. Panvini & F. Nicoletti (eds.), Beni Culturali: dai depositi alla valorizzazione. Modi, forme, esperienze, norme. Mesogheia: 117-136.
2020 Thea Sommerschield
"Restoring ancient texts using Machine Learning: A case-study on Greek and Latin epigraphy".
In Papers of the British School at Rome, 88: 387-388.
2019 Yannis Assael*, Thea Sommerschield*, Jonathan Prag [*co-first authors]
"Restoring ancient texts using Deep Learning: A case study on Greek epigraphy".
In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP): 6369-6376. Available here.
2019 Thea Sommerschield
"A new Sicilian curse corpus: A blueprint for a geographical and chronological analysis of defixiones from Sicily".
In Leao, D., et al. (eds.), Greek Art in Motion: Studies in Honour of Sir John Boardman on the Occasion of His 90th Birthday, Oxford : Archaeopress. 489-501. Available here.
2016 Thea Sommerschield
"A long way from home: The pertinence of pilgrimage to ancient Greek religion".
In PONS AELIUS, Newcastle University 13: 25-34.
- 2024 Jun ‘Future of Classics and AI’ workshop. Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies, ICS London.
- 2024 May ‘Computational Linguistics and Classics’ seminar. Digital Philology National Doctoral School, Uppsala University.
- 2024 Feb ‘Research Colloquium on Digital History’ seminar. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
- 2023 Sep ‘Ancient Language Processing’ workshop keynote. RANLP 2023 Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing.
- 2023 May ‘Latin and the languages of ancient Italy in the age of digital corpora’ Laurence seminar. University of Cambridge
- 2023 Apr ‘Abbreviations in Ancient and Medieval writing systems’ workshop. Merton College, Oxford
- 2023 Mar ‘Artificial Intelligence for Greek epigraphy’ launch event keynote. National Hellenic Research Foundation & Epigraphic Museum of Athens
- 2023 Jan DHAI – Digital Humanities seminar panel discussant. École Normale Supérieure, Paris
- 2022 Nov The Ancient World Research Cluster seminar. Wolfson College, Oxford
- 2022 Oct Ghislieri Prize lectio magistralis. Collegio Ghislieri, Pavia
- 2022 Sep CARMEN MSCA-ITN Project conference keynote. La Sapienza Università di Roma
- 2022 May ‘Identity, Archaeology and Semiotics’ symposium panel discussant. Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.
- 2022 May Channels of Digital Scholarship seminar. Maison Française, University of Oxford
- 2022 Mar Distinguished Talks series. Athens AUEB University
- 2020 Jun Digital Classicist London seminar (link). Institute for Classical Studies
- 2020 May OIKOS research seminar. OIKOS National Research School in Classical Studies
- 2022 Aug Congrès International d'Épigraphie Grecque et Latine (CIEGL) 2022. Bordeaux.
- 2022 Apr Classical Association Annual Conference (CA) 2022. Swansea.
- 2021 Jun Memoria, spazio, identità. University of St Andrews & Università di Palermo.
- 2020 Nov Ancient History e Digital Humanities: Strumenti e Prospettive. Università degli Studi di Milano.
- 2020 Feb Beni Culturali. Dai Depositi alla Valorizzazione. Soprintendenza per i Beni Culturali e Ambientali di Catania.
- 2019 Nov EMNLP – IJCNLP: Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing. Hong Kong.
- 2019 Nov Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning in Archaeology Conference. British School at Rome.
- 2019 Jun The 2nd International Samson Eitrem Seminar on Magic in the Ancient World. Norwegian Institute at Athens.
- 2019 Jan Joint Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Society for Classical Studies. San Diego.