2026
Publications
Farina, Andrea, Michele Ciletti, Barbara McGillivray, and Andrea Ballatore. 2026. Sense-Based Annotation of Geographical Nouns in Ancient Greek and Latin: A Diachronic Study with LLMs. Proceedings of SIGHUM 2026, 266–279. March 28-29, 2026 ©2026 Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2026.latechclfl-1.26
Farina, Andrea, Marco Passarotti, Francesco Mambrini, Matteo Pellegrini, Giovanni Moretti, and Eleonora Litta. 2026. PREMOVE In LiLa: Integrating Latin Preverbed Motion Verbs With WordNet And VerbNet. Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026), 3672 3683. European Language Resources Association (ELRA). https://doi.org/10.63317/3ifm66wvmf86
Ghizzota, Eleonora, Paola Marongiu, Pierpaolo Basile, Stefano Ferilli, and Barbara McGillivray. 2026. Linguistic Knowledge Graphs for Sense Prediction: a case-study on Latin. Proceedings of the 15th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference. https://lrec.elra.info/lrec2026-main-856 slides
Conference presentations
Farina, Andrea, and Barbara McGillivray. 2026. Annotating Semantic Features in a Diachronic Corpus of Latin: Strategies for a Semi-Automatic Approach. Semantic Annotation for the Ancient World Conference 2026. May 7-8, 2026, Rethymno (Greece). Link.
McGillivray, Barbara. 2026. Introducing the COALA Project. Historical Languages & AI, March 5-6, 2026, Berlin (Germany). Link.
Invited talks and keynotes
McGillivray, Barbara. 15 June 2026. AI Driven Approaches to Latin Lexical Semantics. The COALA project. Digital Latin III. University of Siena.
McGillivray, Barbara. 11 June 2026. What did they mean? Computational Approaches to Word Meaning in Historical Sources. FLOW Conference. University of Bern.
McGillivray, Barbara. 28 May 2026. Computational approaches to meaning change. Séminaire “Methods” . University of Namur.
McGillivray, Barbara. 29 March 2026. Between Precision and Scale: Bridging Computational Methods and Humanistic Inquiry in Historical Semantics. 10th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature (LaTeCH-CLfL 2026, 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2026), March 28-29, 2026, Rabat (Morocco). Abstract.
McGillivray, Barbara. 24 February 2026. Computational analyses of word meaning in historical texts. Seminar cycle organised by Computational Lab for Investigations of History (CLIOH), University of Turin.McGillivray, Barbara. 9 January 2025. Temporal models for Word Sense Disambiguation in historical texts and the COALA project. ALMAnaCH seminar series, Inria Paris.
McGillivray, Barbara. 30 January 2026. Tracing meaning across time with AI. Seminar at Queen Mary University of London.
McGillivray, Barbara. 15 January 2026. Making a Quantitative Historical Linguistics Framework Work in Practice. Quantitative Diachronic Linguistics and Cultural Analytics: Data-Driven Insights into Language and Cultural Change, January 15-16, 2026, London (United Kingdom). Link.
McGillivray, Barbara. 9 January 2026. Temporal models for Word Sense Disambiguation in historical texts and the COALA project. ALMAnaCH Seminar, INRIA, Paris.
2025
Conference presentations
McGillivray, Barbara. 25 November 2025. Understanding Semantic Change Across Centuries. Oxford Classics Seminar. University of Oxford.
McGillivray, Barbara, Valentina Lunardi. 24 September 2025. Tracing Semantic Shifts in Neo-Latin Texts Using Word Embeddings. Digital Neo-Latin Studies: Ideas and Perspectives conference (DigiNL25). University of Aarhus and the Centre for Danish Neo-Latin, Aarhus.
Invited talks and lectures
McGillivray, Barbara. 20 November 2025. Tracing meaning across time with AI. HASS x AI initiative. College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CoHASS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore.
McGillivray, Barbara. 17 November 2025. Analysing word meaning in Historical Texts with Computational Methods. International workshop “Who’s Afraid of AI? Creativity, Credibility and the Humanities”. Faculty of History and Cultural Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (online).
McGillivray, Barbara. 4 November 2025. Parole in movimento: lo studio del cambiamento semantico con le digital humanities. University of Bologna.
McGillivray, Barbara. 24 October 2025. Computational Approaches to Historical Semantics. Invited Featured Speaker at the 36th Annual UCLA Indo‑European Conference (WeCIEC 36), UCLA, Los Angeles.