Associate Research Scholar, Digital Projects @ ISAW Library | prev. Quantitative Criticism Lab (UT-Austin) & Culture, Cognition, Coevolution Lab (Harvard) | Fordham PhD, #Classics | #DigiClass, #Latin, #Greek | LatinCy dev, CLTK contrib | #Pythonhttps://bsky.app/profile/diyclassics.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/diyclassics.bsky.social/post/3msganscwls26This is good—and I see a lot of the recent super modular/component-based LatinCy dev throughout, with ideas of how to make it all work all together even better... [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 Aug 2026 14:25 +0000at://did:plc:vteeb7edsxotoyxp6kyasgpl/app.bsky.feed.post/3msganscwls26https://bsky.app/profile/diyclassics.bsky.social/post/3msbcks4wos2w✨Version bump✨ latincy-preprocess v0.4.0 Added Ancient Greek preprocessing features (based on @jtauber.com excellent greek-normalisation work!) https://github.com/latincy/latincy-preprocess04 Aug 2026 15:15 +0000at://did:plc:vteeb7edsxotoyxp6kyasgpl/app.bsky.feed.post/3msbcks4wos2whttps://bsky.app/profile/diyclassics.bsky.social/post/3ms3ynoilt22yWhat should I curate/count/aggregate/visualize next in the Iliad & Odyssey? [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Aug 2026 12:35 +0000at://did:plc:vteeb7edsxotoyxp6kyasgpl/app.bsky.feed.post/3ms3ynoilt22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/diyclassics.bsky.social/post/3mrxuayy5is2e📝 New post, new series 📝 "Homeric Hapax Tables in Kumpf 1984" Quantified Homer post on a data/code reconstruction of the four summary tables in Kumpf’s 1984 book »Four Indices of the Homeric Hapax Legomena« exploratoryphilology.org/posts/kumpf-1984/ #digiclass31 Jul 2026 21:05 +0000at://did:plc:vteeb7edsxotoyxp6kyasgpl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrxuayy5is2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/diyclassics.bsky.social/post/3ms3ynoilt22yWhat should I curate/count/aggregate/visualize next in the Iliad & Odyssey? [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Aug 2026 12:35 +0000at://did:plc:vteeb7edsxotoyxp6kyasgpl/app.bsky.feed.post/3ms3ynoilt22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/diyclassics.bsky.social/post/3mrzizgqcas2stl;dr—Is ἑτέρως a Homeric hapax? Is Ἀστύνοος a hapax? “Hapactic edge cases abound.” [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Aug 2026 12:50 +0000at://did:plc:vteeb7edsxotoyxp6kyasgpl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrzizgqcas2shttps://bsky.app/profile/diyclassics.bsky.social/post/3mrxuayy5is2e📝 New post, new series 📝 "Homeric Hapax Tables in Kumpf 1984" Quantified Homer post on a data/code reconstruction of the four summary tables in Kumpf’s 1984 book »Four Indices of the Homeric Hapax Legomena« exploratoryphilology.org/posts/kumpf-1984/ #digiclass31 Jul 2026 21:05 +0000at://did:plc:vteeb7edsxotoyxp6kyasgpl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrxuayy5is2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/diyclassics.bsky.social/post/3mrxtm2zt522eBack from the “Epic through Numbers” panel at CCC in Maynooth last week (and I’ve seen a movie!)—think I might start up a series of posts on… Quantified Homer…31 Jul 2026 20:54 +0000at://did:plc:vteeb7edsxotoyxp6kyasgpl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrxtm2zt522ehttps://bsky.app/profile/diyclassics.bsky.social/post/3mrnhd5iozc2vWhy not rely on an LLM for Latin vocabulary list generation? Some thoughts here on explainable/interpretable (computational) philology... https://exploratoryphilology.org/posts/introducing-latincy-vocab/27 Jul 2026 17:47 +0000at://did:plc:vteeb7edsxotoyxp6kyasgpl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrnhd5iozc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/diyclassics.bsky.social/post/3mrnhd5iozc2vWhy not rely on an LLM for Latin vocabulary list generation? Some thoughts here on explainable/interpretable (computational) philology... https://exploratoryphilology.org/posts/introducing-latincy-vocab/27 Jul 2026 17:47 +0000at://did:plc:vteeb7edsxotoyxp6kyasgpl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrnhd5iozc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/diyclassics.bsky.social/post/3mrj4c2qpkk2j📝 New post 📝 "Introducing... LatinCy Vocab" Background on a Python package and spaCy component that turns plaintext Latin into pedagogically-aware, well-formatted vocabulary lists https://exploratoryphilology.org/posts/introducing-latincy-vocab/ #digiclass #teachlatin [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Jul 2026 00:19 +0000at://did:plc:vteeb7edsxotoyxp6kyasgpl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrj4c2qpkk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/diyclassics.bsky.social/post/3mrj4c2qpkk2j📝 New post 📝 "Introducing... LatinCy Vocab" Background on a Python package and spaCy component that turns plaintext Latin into pedagogically-aware, well-formatted vocabulary lists https://exploratoryphilology.org/posts/introducing-latincy-vocab/ #digiclass #teachlatin [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Jul 2026 00:19 +0000at://did:plc:vteeb7edsxotoyxp6kyasgpl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrj4c2qpkk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/diyclassics.bsky.social/post/3mrgagdudo224🚀 New release 🚀 latincy-vocab v0.1.0 Build well-formatted Latin vocabulary lists from plaintext https://github.com/latincy/latincy-vocab #digiclass #teachlatin24 Jul 2026 20:55 +0000at://did:plc:vteeb7edsxotoyxp6kyasgpl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrgagdudo224https://bsky.app/profile/diyclassics.bsky.social/post/3mrgagdudo224🚀 New release 🚀 latincy-vocab v0.1.0 Build well-formatted Latin vocabulary lists from plaintext https://github.com/latincy/latincy-vocab #digiclass #teachlatin24 Jul 2026 20:55 +0000at://did:plc:vteeb7edsxotoyxp6kyasgpl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrgagdudo224https://bsky.app/profile/diyclassics.bsky.social/post/3mqcj7fopos2f✨Version bump✨ latincy-lexicon v0.9.0 Whitaker's Words as LatinCy component Improved handling of archaic & rare forms in both lookups and paradigms, fixes to irregular verbs, better future tense handling, beta Lewis & Short integration, etc. https://github.com/latincy/latincy-lexicon10 Jul 2026 15:57 +0000at://did:plc:vteeb7edsxotoyxp6kyasgpl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqcj7fopos2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/diyclassics.bsky.social/post/3mqaabnh47k23✨Version bump✨ txtdown v0.3.1 Minimal markup for Latin text collections Improved document validation; improved quotation handling; hierarchy-aware citations https://github.com/diyclassics/txtdown09 Jul 2026 18:11 +0000at://did:plc:vteeb7edsxotoyxp6kyasgpl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqaabnh47k23https://bsky.app/profile/diyclassics.bsky.social/post/3mmf3m465jc27Teaching a course this fall at @isawnyu.bsky.social on text analysis for historical languages—course description here: https://diyclassics.github.io/isaw-f2026-ga3023/. If you are at NYU (or a consortium program) and are interested, let me know. #TeachAncient #DigiClass21 May 2026 18:50 +0000at://did:plc:vteeb7edsxotoyxp6kyasgpl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmf3m465jc27https://bsky.app/profile/diyclassics.bsky.social/post/3mjwibj3ebs2kMade some LatinCy-based suggestions here—what else are people working with? [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Apr 2026 12:37 +0000at://did:plc:vteeb7edsxotoyxp6kyasgpl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjwibj3ebs2khttps://bsky.app/profile/diyclassics.bsky.social/post/3mjicv3f6bc2pAnnouncing—LatinCy Lexicon v0.1, a refactored version of Whitaker's Words that uses LatinCy annotations to disambiguate words/meanings. Can be added as a custom component to any LatinCy pipeline. https://github.com/latincy/latincy-lexicon #digiclass #nlproc14 Apr 2026 21:23 +0000at://did:plc:vteeb7edsxotoyxp6kyasgpl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjicv3f6bc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/diyclassics.bsky.social/post/3mjidn4ufms2pFrom Whitaker's release notes... "Permission is hereby freely given for any and all use of program and data." Amazingly open license, allowing us to build cool stuff for Latin. And thanks also to Martin Keegan for hosting the maintenance of Words since 2015, cf. https://mk270.github.io/whitakers-words/introduction.html [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 Apr 2026 21:36 +0000at://did:plc:vteeb7edsxotoyxp6kyasgpl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjidn4ufms2phttps://bsky.app/profile/diyclassics.bsky.social/post/3mjidfyvh5k2pAlso—hoping to implement genuine word sense disambiguation soon by combining this functionality with the LatinCy token vectors... getting there... [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 Apr 2026 21:33 +0000at://did:plc:vteeb7edsxotoyxp6kyasgpl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjidfyvh5k2phttps://bsky.app/profile/diyclassics.bsky.social/post/3mjicv3f6bc2pAnnouncing—LatinCy Lexicon v0.1, a refactored version of Whitaker's Words that uses LatinCy annotations to disambiguate words/meanings. Can be added as a custom component to any LatinCy pipeline. https://github.com/latincy/latincy-lexicon #digiclass #nlproc14 Apr 2026 21:23 +0000at://did:plc:vteeb7edsxotoyxp6kyasgpl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjicv3f6bc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/diyclassics.bsky.social/post/3miepspaqxs2gNew blog post on the LatinCy v3.9 XPOS tags now up here: https://exploratoryphilology.org/posts/latincy-xpos-tags/ #digiclass #nlproc [contains quote post or other embedded content]31 Mar 2026 17:39 +0000at://did:plc:vteeb7edsxotoyxp6kyasgpl/app.bsky.feed.post/3miepspaqxs2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/diyclassics.bsky.social/post/3miepspaqxs2gNew blog post on the LatinCy v3.9 XPOS tags now up here: https://exploratoryphilology.org/posts/latincy-xpos-tags/ #digiclass #nlproc [contains quote post or other embedded content]31 Mar 2026 17:39 +0000at://did:plc:vteeb7edsxotoyxp6kyasgpl/app.bsky.feed.post/3miepspaqxs2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/diyclassics.bsky.social/post/3mhxtoska6k2k✨ LatinCy v3.9 sm/md/lg/trf pipelines for SpaCy available ✨ - Improved tokenization and u/v norm - New custom Latin-specific XPOS tags - Better, more consistent lemma/morph coverage https://huggingface.co/latincy/la_core_web_lg #digiclass #nlproc26 Mar 2026 14:43 +0000at://did:plc:vteeb7edsxotoyxp6kyasgpl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhxtoska6k2khttps://bsky.app/profile/diyclassics.bsky.social/post/3mhxtxl2hgs2gMaking "album" covers for the model releases now... This one has Catus — from "De cato seu fele" in Gesner's »Historiae animalium liber primus de quadrupedibus viviparis« (1551), p. 318 https://books.google.com/books?id=89PCL-knVQQC&pg=RA2-PA318#v=onepage&q&f=false [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Mar 2026 14:48 +0000at://did:plc:vteeb7edsxotoyxp6kyasgpl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhxtxl2hgs2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/diyclassics.bsky.social/post/3mhxtoska6k2k✨ LatinCy v3.9 sm/md/lg/trf pipelines for SpaCy available ✨ - Improved tokenization and u/v norm - New custom Latin-specific XPOS tags - Better, more consistent lemma/morph coverage https://huggingface.co/latincy/la_core_web_lg #digiclass #nlproc26 Mar 2026 14:43 +0000at://did:plc:vteeb7edsxotoyxp6kyasgpl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhxtoska6k2khttps://bsky.app/profile/diyclassics.bsky.social/post/3mh75xa2shs25So many of you have asked—happy to announce... Latin BERT v1 now available on HuggingFace 📦 Model: https://huggingface.co/latincy/latin-bert 📝 Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2009.10053 Original weights, experimental repackaging—leave issues/etc. in the HF discussions #nlproc #digiclass cc: @dbamman.bsky.social16 Mar 2026 19:10 +0000at://did:plc:vteeb7edsxotoyxp6kyasgpl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mh75xa2shs25