Patrick J. Burns

Associate Research Scholar, Digital Projects @ Institute for the Study of the Ancient World / NYU | Formerly Culture Cognition, and Coevolution Lab (Harvard) & Quantitative Criticism Lab (UT-Austin) | Fordham PhD, Classics | LatinCy developer

The Role of 'Small' Models for Ancient NLP in a World of Large Language Models

The Digital Afterlife of a Dead Language: Or Recovering 34 Billion(!) Latin Words from AI Training Data

Rebuilding the Library of Al3xandr!a: Latin Post-OCR Correction as a Philological Task

Neo-Latin as a pragmatic source of language model training data

The Collocations You Really Need to Know

(Re)active Latin: Computational Chat as Future colloquia

Latin in an Environment of Infinite Extensive Reading

Intertextuality and Latin Language Models, or a Grammar of Subword Allusion

LatinCy: Synthetic Trained Pipelines for Latin NLP

How much Latin does ChatGPT 'know'?

Measuring Emotional Content in Historical Text through Classification and Lexicon Construction

Streamlining historical-language text processing with CLTK Readers

Coding as an Intellectual Craft

Error, Scale, and the Computational Redefinition of Philology

Hello κόσμε: Philology at the Command Line

Latin Literary Acrostics as Information Technology

Senecan Trimeter and Humanist Tragedy

Sequitur, Non Sequitur: Word Prediction in the Latin Classroom

Metaformalism, or Setting a Baseline for Detecting Anagrammatic Play in Ovid’s Metamorphoses

Latin BERT: A Contextual Language Model for Classical Philology

Ensemble lemmatization with the Classical Language Toolkit

'Poeticness' as a Continuous Variable: Rethinking Prosaism in Horace's Odes 4.9

ELIZA, ELIZAE: The Absurdity and (Absurd) Potential of Latin Chatbots

Building a Text Analysis Pipeline for Classical Languages

Autodidacts and the 'Promises' of Digital Classics

Hacking Multi-word Named Entity Recognition on HathiTrust Extracted Features Data

Multiplex Lemmatization with the Classical Language Toolkit

Constructing Stoplists for Historical Languages

Lucan's tres libri: A reconsideration of arrangement and argument in the Bellum civile

Backoff Lemmatization as a Philological Method

Latin in Unexpected Places

Mapping Linked Data Subject Headings in the Library Catalog

Creating Stopword Lists for Historical Languages

Virgil’s Hardest Sentence?: Measuring Readability in Latin Poetry

The Future of Ancient Literacy: Classical Language Toolkit and Google Summer of Code

Cicero's Hardest Sentence?: Measuring Readability in Latin Literature

Erotic Distraction in Lucan's Bellum civile

Caesar Captivus: Elegiac Enrichment in Lucan's Bellum civile

From amicitia to amor: Lucan's Elegiac Turn

Carpe Iter: A Case for Latin-Themed Field Trips

Distant Reading Alliteration in Latin Literature

Lucian’s Ekphrasis of the Visible and the Invisible in Imagines

Distant Reading Alliteration in Latin Poetry

Pessime Planudes: Scaliger's Cato and the Polemics of Retranslation

Laudatio, Lineage, and Legacy in Cicero's Brutus

The Poet Who Dreamt He Was a Poet: Dream, Text and the Problem of Inspiration in Lucretius

Review of P.L. Chambers's The Natural Histories of Pliny the Elder

Short on Erotics: Eros as Epic Hero in Apollonius Rhodius’ Argonautica 3.275-298

Dice Play and Wordplay in Apollonius Rhodius’ Argonautica 3.111-128

The Hyper-Alexandrianism of the Virgilian Centos and Girl Talk's Mashups