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LatinCy

2026-05-15T13:37:01Z

PatrickBurns: Add project page

==Available==

* https://huggingface.co/latincy

==Authors==

* Maintainer: Patrick J. Burns

==Description==
LatinCy is a suite of natural language process models, pipelines, and tools for Latin and Ancient Greek.

===Projects===

''Select LatinCy resources''

* SpaCy Pipeline (lg): https://huggingface.co/latincy/la_core_web_lg
* LatinCy Readers, corpus readers for Latin and Ancient Greek: https://github.com/latincy/latincy-readers
* LatinCy Lexicon, lexical resources for LatinCy based on Whitaker's Words: https://github.com/latincy/latincy-lexicon

==Publications==

* Burns, Patrick J. 2023. “LatinCy: Synthetic Trained Pipelines for Latin NLP.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.04365v1.

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User:PatrickBurns

2026-05-12T18:05:14Z

PatrickBurns: Update bio

[https://diyclassics.github.io Patrick J. Burns] is Associate Research Scholar, Digital Projects at the [http://isaw.nyu.edu/ 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 [https://github.com/diyclassics/la_core_web_lg LatinCy], a Latin language model for spaCy, and has been a contributor to the [http://cltk.org/ Classical Language Toolkit] (CLTK). Other projects include [https://huggingface.co/latincy/latin-bert 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 [https://exploratoryphilology.org/ exploratoryphilology.org] and can be found on Bluesky at [https://bsky.app/profile/diyclassics.bsky.social @diyclassics.bsky.social].

User:PatrickBurns

2016-09-21T14:29:38Z

PatrickBurns: Created page with "Patrick J. Burns received his doctorate in Classics from Fordham University in 2016 and is currently Assistant Research Scholar with a focus on digital projects at the [http:/..."

Patrick J. Burns received his doctorate in Classics from Fordham University in 2016 and is currently Assistant Research Scholar with a focus on digital projects at the [http://isaw.nyu.edu/people/staff/pburns Institute for the Study of the Ancient World]. He has presented text-analysis research at meetings of the Society for Classical Studies and the Digital Classics Association, and has a forthcoming article of measuring and visualizing cross-genre intertextuality in Latin poetry. Patrick is a lead contributor for [http://cltk.org Classical Language Toolkit], focusing on development of the core natural language processing tools for Latin and Greek. As a member of the CLTK team, he participated in the 2016 Google Summer of Code, working on improving the accuracy and flexibility of the CLTK lemmatizer. Patrick blogs about text analysis and classical languages at [http://disiectamembra.wordpress.com http://disiectamembra.wordpress.com].