Thea Sommerschield
@TSommerschield
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🌍 @LeverhulmeTrust EC Fellow @UoNClassics 🔎 ex @MSCActions @HellenicStudies postdoc, @UniofOxford DPhil 🪩 Epigraphy by day, AI by night— Mediterranean always
Nottingham
Joined April 2014
Ithaca's not back - it's better. 📢 Introducing #AENEAS, the first AI model for contextualising Roman inscriptions, designed to help historians better interpret, attribute and restore fragmentary texts 🔎.Read the paper, published today in @Nature, at
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Nature - Aeneas, a generative neural network trained on ancient texts, helps historians contextualize inscriptions and perform epigraphic tasks, offering an improved starting point for historical...
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RT @techreview: Google DeepMind’s new AI can help historians understand ancient Latin inscriptions
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Aeneas aims to “connect the past” by providing researchers with historical parallels.
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RT @demishassabis: Huge congrats to @iassael, @TSommerschield, @shakir_za, and the whole team and our collaborators! Link to the paper here….
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Nature - Aeneas, a generative neural network trained on ancient texts, helps historians contextualize inscriptions and perform epigraphic tasks, offering an improved starting point for historical...
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RT @Google: In 2022, @GoogleDeepMind launched Ithaca to help restore, place and date ancient texts. Now, they're working with collaborator….
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RT @GoogleDeepMind: Our new state-of-the-art AI model Aeneas transforms how historians connect the past. 📜. Ancient inscriptions often lack….
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🌟Thank you to the magic Aeneas team! @iassael, @Sicilyepigraphy, @BrendanShilling , @shakir_za, @RWulgaert, Alison Cooley, @LatinNowERC, Bailey Herms, Priyanka Suresh, John Pavlopoulos, Justin Grayson, Benjamin Maynard & Nicholas Dietrich.
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💻 Use Aeneas' free online interface for your research at
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Ithaca and Aeneas are generative AI models designed to assist historians in the study of ancient Greek and Latin inscriptions. They are part of a wider initiative on developing collaborative AI for...
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RT @AthensNLP: 📢 It's official! Save the Date! . The #AthNLP Summer School is coming! .📅 4-10 September 2025 .📍 Athens, Greece .@AthensN….
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RT @ERC_Research: 📜 #AI + #RadiocarbonDating = new precision in dating the #DeadSeaScrolls. New study led by Mladen Popovic @univgroningen….
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RT @OxHumanities: How to read an ancient scroll reduced to brittle carbon by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD? 🌋. Read about the groundbre….
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RT @Nature: How AI is unlocking ancient texts — and could rewrite history
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Nature - From deciphering burnt Roman scrolls to reading crumbling cuneiform tablets, neural networks could give researchers more data than they’ve had in centuries.
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RT @turinginst: 📢 The Turing Lectures: Can we live with AI? | In AI we trust. ? – part 3. 🕒 7pm | 📅 9 December | 📍@KingsPlace, London + on….
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RT @UoNClassics: 📢Join us for tomorrow's dept research workshop w/ our @LeverhulmeTrust postdoc researchers: .Dr @TSommerschield on new #in….
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RT @UoNClassics: 📢Join us tomorrow (Tuesday) at 5pm for this year's first #research #workshop! Dr Mauro Puddu (Università Ca' Foscari Venez….
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RT @debscavator: CQ's paper of the month is this excellent piece on "Bilingualism and Greek Identity in the Fifth Century BCE" by @thucydid….
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Enjoyed speaking with @Gizmodo about how AI is aiding historians' work on ancient texts (like the Vesuvius Challenge!), and sharing insights from our recent #ML4AL workshop @aclmeeting 😊 Thank you for the thoughtful interview.
How AI Is Deciphering Lost Scrolls From the Roman Empire
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Check out our website for more information about the workshop
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