In press
Expected 2026 Thea Sommerschield, Yannis Assael
“Machine Learning and Classical Studies”.
In E. Barker, O. Boubou & R. Raja (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Digital Classical Studies Oxford University Press - Oxford.
Expected 2025 Thea Sommerschield, Stefano Vassallo
“Adaptation and Synthesis: Exploring local engagement with Greek mythology and epigraphy
in the Sicilian hinterland”.
In E. Villari, et al. (eds.), Centauri, cavalli e cavalieri in area euboica. Archeologia, storia sociale e rappresentazioni iconografiche (provisional title) Archaeopress - Oxford.
Expected 2025 Thea Sommerschield
“Iscrizioni su anfore greco-occidentali a Himera”.
In B. Bechtold & S. Vassallo (eds.), Produzioni e circolazione delle anfore greco-occidentali (VI-V sec. a.C.): il contributo dalle necropoli di Himera. BABESCH Supplement 49. Peeters - Leuven. 135-146.
Published papers
2025 Yannis Assael,* Thea Sommerschield,* Alison Cooley, Brendan Shillingford, John Pavlopoulos, Priyanka Suresh, Bailey Herms, Justin Grayston, Benjamin Maynard, Nicholas Dietrich, Robbe Wulgaert, Jonathan Prag, Alex Mullen & Shakir Mohamed [*co-first authors]
“Contextualizing ancient texts with generative neural networks”.
In Nature, 645(8079): 141–147. Available here.
2024 John Pavlopoulos,* Thea Sommerschield,* Yannis Assael*, Kyunghyun Cho, et al. (eds.)
Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Machine Learning for Ancient Languages (ML4AL 2024).
Association for Computational Linguistics Available here
2023 Thea Sommerschield, Stefano Vassallo
“Le storie di Eracle narrate a Terravecchia di Cuti: un nuovo louterion iscritto”.
In Sicilia Archeologica, 114: 33-47.
2023 Thea Sommerschield,* Yannis Assael,* John Pavlopoulos,* Vanessa Stefanak, Andrew Senior, Chris Dyer, John Bodel, Jonathan Prag, Ion Androutsopoulos, Nando de Freitas [*co-first authors]
“Machine Learning for ancient languages: A survey”.
In Computational Linguistics, 49(3): 703–747. MIT Press Available here.
2022 Yannis Assael,* Thea Sommerschield,* Brendan Shillingford, Mahyar Bordbar, John Pavlopoulos, Marita Chatzipanagiotou, Ion Androutsopoulos, Jonathan Prag, Nando de Freitas [*co-first authors]
"Restoring and attributing ancient texts with deep neural networks".
In Nature, 603(7900): 280–283. Cover issue of 10 March 2022. Available here.
2021 Jonathan Prag, Thea Sommerschield
"Sicilia epigrafica: dai depositi alla valorizzazione".
In R. Panvini & F. Nicoletti (eds.), Beni Culturali: dai depositi alla valorizzazione. Modi, forme, esperienze, norme. Mesogheia: 117-136.
2020 Thea Sommerschield
"Restoring ancient texts using Machine Learning: A case-study on Greek and Latin epigraphy".
In Papers of the British School at Rome, 88: 387-388.
2019 Yannis Assael*, Thea Sommerschield*, Jonathan Prag [*co-first authors]
"Restoring ancient texts using Deep Learning: A case study on Greek epigraphy".
In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP): 6369-6376. Available here.
2019 Thea Sommerschield
"A new Sicilian curse corpus: A blueprint for a geographical and chronological analysis of defixiones from Sicily".
In Leao, D., et al. (eds.), Greek Art in Motion: Studies in Honour of Sir John Boardman on the Occasion of His 90th Birthday, Oxford : Archaeopress. 489-501. Available here.
2016 Thea Sommerschield
"A long way from home: The pertinence of pilgrimage to ancient Greek religion".
In PONS AELIUS, Newcastle University 13: 25-34.