Dr. Brian Joseph, Distinguished University Professor of Linguistics and Kenneth E. Naylor Professor of South Slavic Linguistics, along with Marie de Marneffe (Linguistics), Micha Elsner (Linguistics) and Chris Brown (Classics), won a Digital Humanities Advancement Grant in the amount of $74,808 from the National Endowment for the Humanities for their project “Named Entity Recognition for the Classical Languages for the Building of a Catalog of Ancient Peoples”. The project involves the creation of a catalog of individuals and groups mentioned in ancient sources, to focus on the historical role played by those other than the "great actors." The team will use Named Entity Recognition, a computational linguistics method which identifies people and place names in texts and then sorts them into pre-defined categories.

Congratulations Dr. Joseph!