TALOS-AI4SSH ERA Chair in Artificial Intelligence for Humanities and Social Sciences

Project Strategy

“ERA Chairs support universities or research organisations […] to attract and maintain high-quality human resources under the direction of an outstanding researcher and research manager (the ‘ERA Chair holder’), and to implement structural changes to achieve excellence on a sustainable basis.” Horizon Europe 2021-2022.

Thanks to the generous funding by the European Commission (ERA Chairs HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-TALENTS-01), the University of Crete will enhance its capacity building in the field of Digital Humanities. A new Center of Excellence will be established in Rethymnon: TALOS, named after the ancient robot/guardian of Crete. The activities of the Center will be led by Professor Christophe Roche, who has committed to put his long standing experience in Artificial Intelligence and Digital Humanities to the service of the UoC for the duration of the project (2023-2028).

The Center will propose innovative curricula for the students of the Faculty of Philosophy of UoC, will organise conferences, workshops, colloquia, open courses and seminars for targeted groups (academic community, students of the UoC, girls, society at large), will attract highly talented researchers to the UoC and will foster collaborations with other Centers in Greece and abroad.

Artificial Intelligence for Social Sciences and Humanities

Vision

  • TALOS ERA Chair in AI for SSH will create and manage a new centre of excellence in explainable AI for SSH (Social Sciences and Humanities) that will interconnect several departments of UoC departments at Rethymnon (the Schools of Philosophy, Education and Social Sciences, coordinating department: Department of Philology) under a common research and teaching agenda.

  • Semantic technologies, such as Knowledge Graphs (KGs), are natively developed to be explainable. They are the modern implementations of Good old-fashioned Symbolic AI. TALOS will combine the strengths of neural networks with symbolic reasoning to create a scalable, sustainable and explainable  representation of knowledge in the Humanities and the Social Sciences.

  • TALOS ERA Chair will harness the power of AI systems that can learn from scholar’s annotations to add AI-enhanced data to the semantic layer of SSH Linked Open Data cloud.

Aims & Objectives

  • Foster institutional reforms through research and teaching in the multidisciplinary area of AI for SSH.
  • Enhance the international visibility of the UCRC, grow networks, increase UoC success in international funding schemes, and lead to brain gain.
  • Attract and maintain an excellent team of researchers, scientists and scholars.
  • Address important research questions in hybrid (neurosymbolic) AI that drive innovation for SSH.
  • Create new open datasets and open-source tools for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences.
  • Disseminate new knowledge via conferences, workshops, articles, doctoral dissertations.
  • Focus on the vulgarization of new knowledge through global outreach initiatives.

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Exploring AI&DH with TalosPart 7️⃣—> @el/@enWhat is TEI?The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) is a consortium which collectively develops and maintains a standard for the representation of texts in digital form. Its chief deliverable is a set of Guidelines which specify encoding methods for machine-readable texts, chiefly in the humanities, social sciences and linguistics.Τι είναι το TEI;Το Text Encoding Initiative (ΤΕΙ) [Πρωτοβουλία Κωδικοποίησης Κειμένων] είναι μια κοινοπραξία που αναπτύσσει και διατηρεί συλλογικά ένα πρότυπο για την αναπαράσταση κειμένων σε ψηφιακή μορφή. Το κύριο παραδοτέο της είναι ένα σύνολο Οδηγιών που καθορίζουν τις μεθόδους κωδικοποίησης για κείμενα αναγνώσιμα από μηχανήματα, κυρίως στις ανθρωπιστικές, στις κοινωνικές επιστήμες και στη γλωσσολογία.Source: tei-c.org/#AI#ArtificialIntelligence#DigitalHumanities#DH#Talos#TalosUoC#ComputerScience#Semantics#SemanticAnnotationoftexts#digitalization#NLP#standards#standardsforSSH#SSH#TALOSAI4SSH #UOC #crete #greece #AISocialInsights #HumanitiesTechBlend #DigitalSociology #EthicsInTech #SocialImpactAI #TechMeetsCulture #AIHumanConnection #SocSciInnovation #DigitalEthnography #aiandsociety

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What is…Protégé?Part 2️⃣—> @en“Protégé plug-in architecture can be adapted to build both simple and complex ontology-based applications. Developers can integrate the output of Protégé with rule systems or other problem solvers to construct a wide range of intelligent systems.”Link: protege.stanford.edu/#AI#ArtificialIntelligence#DigitalHumanities#DH#Talos#TalosUoC#ComputerScience#Semantics#SemanticAnnotationoftexts#digitalization#NLP#standards#standardsforSSH#SSH#TALOSAI4SSH #UOC #crete #greece #AISocialInsights #HumanitiesTechBlend #DigitalSociology #EthicsInTech #SocialImpactAI #TechMeetsCulture #AIHumanConnection #SocSciInnovation #DigitalEthnography #aiandsociety

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Exploring AI&DH with TalosPart 6️⃣—> @el/@enWhat is DL?“Deep learning is a subset of machine learning that uses multi-layered neural networks, called deep neural networks, to simulate the complex decision-making power of the human brain. Some form of deep learning powers most of the artificial intelligence (AI) in our lives today.”Τι είναι η ΒΜ;“Η βαθιά μάθηση είναι ένα υποσύνολο της μηχανικής μάθησης που χρησιμοποιεί νευρωνικά δίκτυα πολλαπλών επιπέδων, τα λεγόμενα βαθιά νευρωνικά δίκτυα, για να προσομοιώσει την πολύπλοκη δύναμη λήψης αποφάσεων του ανθρώπινου εγκεφάλου. Κάποια μορφή βαθιάς μάθησης τροφοδοτεί το μεγαλύτερο μέρος της τεχνητής νοημοσύνης (ΤΝ) στη ζωή μας σήμερα”.“What Is Deep Learning?” IBM. Accessed March 20, 2024. www.ibm.com/topics/deep-learning.#AI#ArtificialIntelligence#DigitalHumanities#DH#Talos#TalosUoC#ComputerScience#Semantics#SemanticAnnotationoftexts#digitalization#NLP#standards#standardsforSSH#SSH#TALOSAI4SSH #UOC #crete #greece #AISocialInsights #HumanitiesTechBlend #DigitalSociology #EthicsInTech #SocialImpactAI #TechMeetsCulture #AIHumanConnection #SocSciInnovation #DigitalEthnography #aiandsociety

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Ides of March x TALOS’ SP x TEDIAs part of the “Ides of March” day, students of Prof. Maria Papadopoulou tried to model the event of Caesar’s assassination using TEDI (ontoTerminology EDItor)!“Tedi, for ontoTerminology EDItor, is a software environment dedicated to building multilingual ontoterminology (an ontoterminology is a terminology whose conceptual system is a formal ontology).”More at: ontoterminology.com/tedi#AI#ArtificialIntelligence#DigitalHumanities#DH#Talos#TalosUoC#ComputerScience#Semantics#SemanticAnnotationoftexts#digitalization#NLP#standards#standardsforSSH#SSH#TALOSAI4SSH #UOC #crete #greece #AISocialInsights #HumanitiesTechBlend #DigitalSociology #EthicsInTech #SocialImpactAI #TechMeetsCulture #AIHumanConnection #SocSciInnovation #DigitalEthnography #aiandsociety

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