Ephrem
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PhD in Liturgy. PI (FWF), ÖAW - Vienna / former ISM fellow - Yale / visiting faculty at the Central European University - Vienna.
Graz, Austria
Joined December 2014
RT @DigiOrientalist: We're back from our break! . And up first is our final keynote by @ephremishac (@oeaw) on "Who is the Public in a Digi….
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RT @DigiOrientalist: @ephremishac introduces the first public Syriac HTR model on @Transkribus helping make Syriac manuscripts more accessi….
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Readers of The Digital Orientalist, you are among the first to know! Today’s post is dedicated to the release of the first public Syriac Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) model on Transkribus and …
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Our #HTR Winter School is off to an amazing start! After Jan Odstrčilík's opening words, Prof Claudia Rapp gave a warm welcome to everyone here at @imafo_oeaw. Looking forward to productive 3 days of collaboration and discovery in the world of manuscript digital recognition!
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RT @DigiOrientalist: Our latest post by @ephremishac explores new OCR and HTR advancements on Making Syriac and Ar….
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For scholars and students of Syriac and Arabic, the vast digital text library of Archive.org has always held immense potential. However, the ability to effectively search and utilize its resources,…
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My piece today on Artificial Intelligence for Grashuni-Arabic in The @DigiOrientalist!. #AI #Garshuni #Syriac #Arabic.
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The recent rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbots like Gemini has opened up exciting new possibilities for interacting with and studying languages, including Syriac. In my previous posts on …
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Thank you so much, @FaithsOxford, for the wonderful invitation: it was truly an honor!.
🚨#Eastern #Christianity in #Interfaith Contexts🚨. 👉Dialogue and Fire in a Fragmentary Syriac Martyrdom Narrative. 👉presented by Dr Ephrem Ishac @ephremishac @FWF_at . 👉Chaired by Prof Sebastian Brock @FacultyofAMES . 🗓️ THUR, 19 Sept. ⏰ 5 pm UK / 12 NY. 📍online. More👇
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RT @FaithsOxford: #SyriacStudies. 📺 We are delighted to share a recording of a fascinating talk . 👉Dialogue & Fire in a Fragmentary Syriac….
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RT @grigory_kessel: Ephrem Ishac @ephremishac on the power of names as attested by the Syriac liturgical manuscripts
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Manuscripts have colophons, and perhaps this photo at the end of our beautiful workshop can function as a pictorial colophon. Many thanks to the organizers: @scsincyberspace, @george_kiraz, @grigory_kessel, and Uta Nitschke-Joseph, who brought the spirit of @the_IAS to @oeaw!
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The opening of our workshop on Misattributions and Forgeries in Middle Eastern Manuscript Traditions, organized by IAS (Institute for Advanced Studies - Princeton): @scsincyberspace, @george_kiraz, and @grigory_kessel, at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. (@imafo_oeaw)
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RT @ephremishac: In the International Women’s Day, I share an old colophon from the 10th century about two women: Hannah and her fellow 'Az….
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RT @DigiOrientalist: 🌍This Worldy Wednesday, we’re exploring the link between social media and #digitalhumanities. @ephremishac's 2020 post….
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RT @DigiOrientalist: Did you enjoy @ephremishac piece on Syriac language and #Gemini @GoogleAI ? . We are out with the second part! Having….
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RT @DigiOrientalist: #newpost! @ephremishac experiments the use of #AI with #Syriac, in particular testing #Gemini by @Google @GoogleAI….
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Since the release of the ChatGPT, many Syriac users have been hoping that this chatbot would enable Syriac as a language to steer Artificial Intelligence (AI) conversations. ChatGPT has not realize…
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Just received my copies of the two Syriac volumes: #COGD 5/1-2 (West and East Syriac Synods). I am grateful to all the contributors and to everyone who worked very hard to reach this twin-birth, especially Malphono Robert Kitchen. Indeed, it is a great Christmas present 🎁 😀 🎄!
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RT @Byzanzforscher: New publication: General Councils of the Eastern Christian Churches in the Corpus Christianorum. Brepols 2023, 2 Vols.,….
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Corpus Christianorum. Conciliorum Oecumenicorum Generaliumque Decreta (CCCOGD) focuses on what has been decreed in different forms by those church councils recognised as ecumenical by one or more...
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RT @DigiOrientalist: 📚Dive into the world of DASH (Digital Analysis of #Syriac #Handwriting) with @ephremishac's interview with @Stanford P….
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In previous years I have posted some interviews with different projects to trace the history of the Syriac Digital Humanities. You can find my previous posts here. Today, my post will be on one of …
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