User:PatrickBurns

Patrick J. Burns is Associate Research Scholar, Digital Projects at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW), NYU, where he also holds the title of Research Associate Professor. He received his doctorate in Classics from Fordham University in 2016.

Burns is a computational philologist whose work focuses on building NLP tools and resources for historical languages, with particular emphasis on Latin and Ancient Greek. He is the developer of LatinCy, a Latin language model for spaCy, and has been a contributor to the Classical Language Toolkit (CLTK). Other projects include Latin BERT, a contextual language model for classical philology developed with David Bamman. He has published in venues including TAPA, American Journal of Philology, Digital Humanities Quarterly, Digital Classics Online and proceedings of ACL and NAACL.

Burns blogs about digital classics at exploratoryphilology.org and can be found on Bluesky at @diyclassics.bsky.social.