Publication "Contextualizing ancient texts with generative neural networks"in Nature with the participation of Assistant Professor John Pavlopoulos from the Department of Informatics at Athens University of Economics and Business

Publication "Contextualizing ancient texts with generative neural networks"in Nature with the participation of Assistant Professor John Pavlopoulos from the Department of Informatics at Athens University of Economics and Business

Assistant Professor John Pavlopoulos, from the Department of Informatics at the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB), is a co-author of a scientific article recently published in the prestigious international journal Nature, titled:
"Contextualizing ancient texts with generative neural networks".

The study presents Aeneas, an advanced language model of artificial intelligence developed by researchers Yannis Assael (Google DeepMind) and Thea Sommerschield (University of Nottingham), in collaboration with researchers from the Universities of Warwick, Oxford, and the Athens University of Economics and Business.

Aeneas is designed to support historians in the analysis, dating, and linking of ancient inscriptions. The model was trained on tens of thousands of inscriptions in Ancient Greek and Latin, and can identify sources, geographical regions, and historical contexts with remarkable accuracy.

Aeneas represents a significant evolution of the earlier model "Ithaca", to which AUEB’s Professor Ion Androutsopoulos and Assistant Professor J. Pavlopoulos had also contributed.

Compared to Ithaca, Aeneas expands the capabilities of artificial intelligence by offering multimodal analysis and interpretation: it can process large historical datasets, detect relationships between inscriptions, trace historical event sequences, and generate complete historical narratives—thus empowering historians to reconstruct the past more effectively.

More information about Aeneas can be found at:
https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/aeneas-transforms-how-historians-connect-the-past/

Animation of a restored bronze military diploma from Sardinia 113/14 C.E. (CIL XVI, 60).