/Humlab eventsen-usMon, 15 Dec 2025 05:20:42 +0100/en/events/humlab-talk-toward-phylogenies-of-word-sense_12153562/With Vojtěch KašeThu, 29 Jan 2026 13:15:00 +0100<p><strong>Toward Phylogenies of Word Sense: Tracing the Cultural Evolution of Meaning in 2,500 Years of Greco-Latin Thought Through Contextual Word Embeddings</strong><br />&nbsp;<br /><strong>Bio/Abstract: </strong>Vojtěch Ka&scaron;e is a social scientist exploring the long-term dynamics of human cultures through computational modeling and naturalistic theory. He is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy, University of West Bohemia, Plzeň, Czech Republic.</p><p>In this talk, he introduces his ongoing efforts to adapt contextual language models for studying semantic change in ancient Greek and Latin. Drawing on recent experiments with fine-tuned transformer architectures, he discusses how large-scale semantic modeling can reveal the evolutionary trajectories of ideas across 2,500 years of Greco-Latin textual history &mdash; outlining both the methodological challenges and the broader promise of constructing &ldquo;phylogenies of word sense.&rdquo;<br /><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><div class="epi-contentfragment">Registration Humlab Talk hybrid</div><p>&nbsp;</p>Humlab / ZoomLecture/en/events/humlab-talk-toward-phylogenies-of-word-sense_12153562/2026-01-29T13:15:00+01:002026-01-29T15:00:00+01:00