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The NIKAW Project: An Infrastructure of Texts, Entities and Language Models to Study the Circulation of Knowledge in the Ancient World

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The foundational work of the interdisciplinary project NIKAW, which aims to analyse social networks in ancient Greek and Latin texts through mentions of historical figures, is presented, addressing the challenge of Named Entity Recognition (NER) for these languages by leveraging transformer-based models enriched with domain-specific knowledge.

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