Published papers
Forthcoming, 2024 Thea Sommerschield, Stefano Vassallo
“Adaptation and Synthesis: Exploring local engagement with Greek mythology and epigraphy
in the Sicilian hinterland”.
In E. Villari, et al. (eds.), Centauri, cavalli e cavalieri in area euboica. Archeologia, storia sociale e rappresentazioni iconografiche (provisional title) Archaeopress - Oxford.
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.
2024 John Pavlopoulos,* Thea Sommerschield,* Yannis Assael*, et al. (eds.)
Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Machine Learning for Ancient Languages (ML4AL 2024).
Association for Computational Linguistics Available here
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.
- 2025 Jun ‘Classical texts in digital media II’ workshop. Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.
- 2025 May 'UK Ancient Historians' Annual Meeting', Aston University, Birmingham.
- 2025 Apr Departmental research seminar. School of Classics, University of St Andrews.
- 2025 Mar Cambridge Philological Society, University of Cambridge.
- 2024 Nov 'Days of Computational Approaches to Ancient Greek and Latin'. KU Leuven.
- 2024 Nov 'Generative AI and Ancient World Studies' public talk series. University of Reading.
- 2024 Oct Departmental research seminar. Department of Classics and Archaeology, University of Nottingham.
- 2024 Sep ‘AI for Good’ global summit. United Nations - ITU, Government of Switzerland.
- 2024 Jun ‘Future of Classics and AI’ AGM talk. 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’. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
- 2023 Sep ‘Ancient Language Processing workshop’ (keynote). RANLP 2023 Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing.
- 2023 May ‘Laurence seminar: Latin and the languages of ancient Italy in the age of digital corpora’. University of Cambridge.
- 2023 Apr ‘Abbreviations in Ancient and Medieval writing systems’ CROSSREADS-ERC workshop. Merton College, Oxford.
- 2023 Mar ‘AI for Greek epigraphy’ launch event. National Hellenic Research Foundation - Athens Epigraphic Museum.
- 2023 Feb Research presentation (campus visit). Department of Classics & Center for Digital Humanities, Princeton University.
- 2023 Jan ENS 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’ ceremony keynote. Ghislieri College, Pavia.
- 2022 Sep ‘Reconceptualising Metrical Epigraphy’ CARMEN MSCA-ITN conference (keynote). La Sapienza Università di Roma.
- 2022 May ‘Identity, Archaeology and Semiotics’ symposium (panel chair). Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.
- 2022 May ‘Channels of Digital Scholarship’ seminar. Maison Française d’Oxford, University of Oxford.
- 2022 Apr CHS Fellow presentation. Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University.
- 2022 Mar ‘AUEB Distinguished Lectures’. Athens AUEB University & Demokritos Research Centre.
- 2020 Jun ‘Digital Classicist London’ seminar. Institute for Classical Studies, London.
- 2020 May ‘OIKOS National Research School in Classical Studies’ seminar. Universities of Groeningen and Utrecht.
- 2019 Nov ‘Oxford Epigraphy Workshop’. Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford.
- 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.