Ruse of reuse: Detecting text-similarity with AI in historical sources

A multimodal LLM for Ancient Greek: initial results and future perspectives

6 Mar 2026, 09:30

30m

Seminary rooms 7 and 8, 5th Floor (Georg-Coch-Platz 2, Austrian Academy of Sciences)

Session 3

Speaker

Anna Dolganov (ÖAI, ÖAW)

Description

In the fall of 2025, the Decoding Antiquity project was launched by Anna Dolganov in collaboration with Mistral AI and Reply AI with the aim of building advanced AI systems for ancient languages. We have started with a multimodal LLM for Ancient Greek, and our next goal will be to train a Vision Language model capable of transcribing hundreds of thousands of undeciphered Ancient Greek papyri. This presentation is a preliminary report of our progress and the broader vision of the project.