The "AI and Intertextuality in Ancient Languages" conference will be held on October 26 and 27, 2026, at the Maison Internationale des Langues et Cultures in Lyon. It is organized by Biblissima+ Cluster 7.
This conference brings together researchers specialising in intertextuality in ancient languages from various countries to address the following two themes: development of models dedicated to intertextuality, and creation of datasets and evaluation repositories.
Details and all information regarding the conference can be found on the dedicated webpage.
Programme provisoire
Lundi 26 octobre
- 9:00 Café d'accueil
- 9:30 Ouverture : Laurence Mellerin (CNRS, HiSoMA, Lyon), Biblical text reuse, from Biblia Patristica to Biblissima+
- 9:45 Marianne Reboul (ENS, Lyon), Alignement automatique de traductions en langues anciennes avec les grands modèles de langue
- 10:30 Ariane Pinche (CIHAM, Lyon), The Same and Never Quite the Same: AI, Mouvance, and Intertextual Networks in Medieval Manuscripts
- 11:15 Pause
- 11:30 Matthew Munson (Universität Hamburg), How can you efficiently search 12 different languages in real time? Building a search engine for the CJHNTdigital project
- 12:15 Jacob Mortensen (Aarhus University, Theology, Department of Culture and Society, Faculty of Arts), Intertextuality in Mark and the Problem of Detection: Notes on a Computational Experiment
- 13:00 Déjeuner
- 14:30 Sophie Robert (Sorbonne Université), Detecting and Indexing Scriptural Quotations in Latin Missals: Segmentation by Intertextual Identification
- 15:15 Gleb Schmidt (Radboud Institute for Culture and History), Textual Relatedness in Early Medieval Canon Law Text
- 16:00 Pause
- 16:15 Caroline Vandyck (Université d'Anvers), Detecting Textual Overlap between Middle Dutch Administrative Deeds and Literary Works by Jan van Boendale
- 17:00 Discussion
Mardi 27 octobre
- 9:00 Paul Robertson (University of New Hampshire), Hand-Coding Slow and LLM Coding Big: Integrating AI Methods with Traditional Qualitative Exegesis
- 9:45 Théotime de la Selle (CNRS, HiSoMA, Lyon)
- 10:30 Pause
- 11:00 Yuri Bizzoni (Aarhus University, School of Culture and Society, Center for Humanities Computing), What Counts as Reuse? LLMs at the Thresholds of Intertextuality (visio)
- 11:45 Frederick Riemenschneider (Université d’Heidelberg), Disiecti membra poetae, Distilling and Decomposing Intertextual Allusions
- 12:30 Déjeuner
- 14:00 Marco Zanella (Université de Padoue et Université de Bologne), A Formal Perspective on Intertextuality: An Abstract Interpretation Approach.
- 14:45 Table-ronde
- 15:30 Conclusions
Inscription
If you wish to attend the conference in person or follow it via videoconference, please register by sending your first name, last name, affiliation, and email address to theotime.de-la-selle@cnrs.fr.