Second Workshop on Ancient Language Processing
Short Title: ALP2025

Date: 03-May-2025 - 03-May-2025
Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Contact: Bin Li
Contact Email: [email protected]
Meeting URL: https://www.ancientnlp.com/alp2025/

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; Historical Linguistics

Meeting Description:

Ancient languages contain rich human historical and cultural wealth. So far there has been some good advancement in applying language technologies to ancient languages such as Sumerian, Akkadian, Latin, Ancient Greek and Ancient Chinese, especially in the construction of digital language resources and resources to facilitate automatic analysis. The workshop on Ancient Language Processing aims to focus specifically on ancient languages and scripts from the emergence of writing in Mesopotamia and Egypt c. 3000 BCE to the entire world up till 800 AD. We wish to provide a recognized forum to further advance this subfield of NLP, where researchers and practitioners can meet and discuss their latest work, and exchange ideas in addressing shared epigraphical challenges in language processing across various ancient languages, such as non-Latin and non-alphabetic scripts, Right-to-Left, transliteration conventions and fragmentary texts. In addition, we propose two shared tasks: EvaCun, focusing on using LLMs for Cuneiforms, and EvaHan, addressing Named Entity Recoganition for Ancient Chinese. These tasks aim to provide an opportunity to tackle the unique challenges of ancient language processing.

Organizing Committee
Dr. Adam Anderson, UC Berkeley, USA
Dr. Shai Gordin, Ariel University, Israel
Dr. Bin Li, Nanjing Normal University, China
Dr. Yudong Liu, Western Washington University, USA
Dr. Marco C. Passarotti, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy
Dr. Rachele Sprugnoli, University of Parma, Italy
Program Committee
Alaa Mamdouh Akef, Peking University, China
Chao-Lin Liu, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Christian M. Prager, University of Bonn, Germany
Congjun Long, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China
Dongbo Wang, Nanjing Agricultural University, China
Francesco Mambrini, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy
Gregory Crane, Tufts University, USA
Heidi Jauhiainen, University of Helsinki, Finland
Jacob Murel, Princeton University, USA
Johann-Mattis List, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany
Jonathan Berant, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Kyle P. Johnson, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, Germany
Liu Liu, Nanjing Agricultural University, China
Long long Ma, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Luis Sáenz, Ariel University/Heidelberg University, Israel/Germany
Martijn Naaijer, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Masayuki Asahara, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Japan
Minxuan Feng, Nanjing Normal University, China
Monica Berti, Leipzig University, Germany
Niek Veldhuis, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Orly Lewis, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Qi Su, Peking University, China
Rachele Sprugnoli, Università degli Studi di Parma, Italy
Renfen Hu, Beijing Normal University, China
Sanhong Deng, Nanjing University, China
Si Shen, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China
Thea Sommerschield, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
Toon Van Hal, University of Leuven, Belgium
Xuri Tang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Student Committee
Stav Klein (Ariel University/TAD Center, Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Zhixing Xu (Nanjing Normal University, China)
Xue Zhao (Nanjing Agricultural University, China)
Jing Chen (Hong Kong Poly University, Hong Kong)
Claudia Corbetta ([email protected], University of Bergamo, Italy)
Danlu Chen ([email protected], UC San Diego, USA)
Ercong Nie ([email protected], Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany)