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One Era’s Nonsense, Another’s Norm: Diachronic study of Greek and the Computer

This paper sets out to explore how and why digital editions of texts or text-versions could facilitate a truly diachronic study of the Greek language. It points out shortcomings of existing digital infrastructure and argues in favour of a general shift of focus towards linguistic analysis of transmitted texts with the help of electronic corpora [...]

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Using open source software for CALL

This was a workshop aimed at informing language teaching officers of the MML Faculty of the University of Cambridge on the possibilities that open source software offers for the creation of teaching content. Some of the slides used in this workshop we links and other information can be found here (some links may be broken [...]

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Digital Humanities

A one-hour lecture about “Digital Humanities”, part of the CHUCOL course at the

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Neither Ancient, nor Modern: Challenges for the creation of a Digital Infrastructure for Medieval Greek

Epistemic Networks and GRID + Web 2.0 for Arts and Humanities 30-31 January 2008 • Imperial College Internet Centre • Imperial College London You can download a PDF-file here with the slides of this presentation

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One era’s nonsense, 
another’s norm.
Diachronic study of Greek 
and the computer

Classics Association Conference 2007, Birmingham Panel Digital Classicist 2, 13 April 2007 You can find the slides of my presentation here.

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Byzantine texts and databases: case studies

Panel “Technology” at the 21st International Congress of Byzantine Studies, London [08.2006] This was an overview paper about the use of databases and electronic texts in the field of Byzantine studies, in a panel organized by Michael Jeffreys. The powerpoint presentation is available as PDF-file.

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XML-based transcriptions of medieval Greek manuscripts:Balancing the needs of different end-users.

Digital Classicist Work in progress seminar, Institute for Classical studies, London [07.2006] This was a paper for a seminar series of Digital Classicist. It was meant for publication for a special issue of the Digital Medievalist but was unfortunately never completed. The manuscript in question is discussed also on my talk on the Thematoepistolae. The [...]

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Building a database for the compilation of the Grammar of Medieval Greek

Building a database for the compilation of the Grammar of Medieval Greek. Language and corpora: an AHRC Workshop at the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge [01.2006] This workshop was organized by the Inscriptions of Aphrodisias project at King’s College London, the Greek Lexicon project, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge and the Grammar of [...]

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Electronic resources for the study of Medieval Greek: achievements and limitations

Digital philology: Problems and perspectives. International conference at the TEUCHOS research centre, University of Hamburg [01.2006] I presented this overview paper at the conference organized by the TEUCHOS research project at the University of Hamburg. The Powerpoint presentation is available as PDF-file.

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Γραµµατική της µεσαιωνικής ελληνικής (1100-1700): γλωσσική περιγραφή και ανάλυση µε τη βοήθεια του ηλεκτρονικού υπολογιστή.

Grammar of Medieval Greek (1100-1700). Computer-assisted language description and analysis. International Conference “Φιλολογία και νέες τεχνολογίες”, at the Aristoteles University of Thessaloniki [10.2005] This conference, bringing together specialists from Greece and abroad on digital applications in Philology was organised by Miltos Pechlivanos. My paper was largely repeating information from the Neograeca Medii Aevi conference in [...]

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