Training & continuing education

Digital Tools for the Diachronic Analysis of Language / Ψηφιακά Εργαλεία για τη Διαχρονική Ανάλυση της Γλώσσας - KEDIVIM at NKUA, autumn 2026

KEDIVIM course at NKUA - autumn 2026 intake

The AthDGC platform is taught as a continuing-education course at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), through the NKUA Centre for Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning (KEDIVIM / KEΔIΒIM).

Course title (Greek): Ψηφιακά Εργαλεία για τη Διαχρονική Ανάλυση της Γλώσσας

Course title (English): Digital Tools for the Diachronic Analysis of Language

When: Autumn 2026 (October - December 2026)

Language: Greek (primary) with English-language sessions and materials.

Level: Open to MA students, PhD students, post-docs, and faculty in linguistics, philology, digital humanities, classical studies, and related fields. No prior NLP background required.

Director: Prof. Nikolaos Lavidas (NKUA, Division of Language-Linguistics, Department of English Language and Literature, School of Philosophy).

Registration: via the NKUA KEDIVIM portal at https://elearn.elke.uoa.gr/ (course code forthcoming on the official KEDIVIM listing for autumn 2026).

What you will learn

The course pairs theoretical instruction in diachronic Greek linguistics with hands-on practice on the AthDGC platform. By the end you will be able to:

  • read PROIEL XML 2.0 annotation fluently across all diachronic periods of Greek (Archaic through Modern);
  • query the AthDGC corpus via the NoSketch-style concordancer and the Neo4j cross-lingual alignment graph;
  • export AthDGC slices into LightSIDE-AthDGC, train classifiers on syntactic features (PROIEL dependency arcs, argument-structure frames, morphology bundles), and inspect which diachronic syntactic patterns drive the classifier's decisions;
  • adapt the AthDGC pipeline (Stanza checkpoints, corpus-fix toolkit, PROIEL XML 2.0 exporter) to your own historical-treebank project;
  • contribute back to AthDGC through the public GitHub repository.

Detailed syllabus

The seven-module structure below is the planned outline for autumn 2026. The official syllabus, ECTS load, and lecture schedule will be confirmed on the KEDIVIM listing closer to term start.

  • Module 1. Introduction to diachronic Greek linguistics and to AthDGC as a platform.
  • Module 2. PROIEL XML 2.0 annotation: reading and verifying dependency parses.
  • Module 3. Argument structure across Greek diachrony: from Homer to Modern.
  • Module 4. Cross-lingual NT alignment (Greek - Latin - Gothic - OCS - Armenian).
  • Module 5. LightSIDE-AthDGC for syntactic classification of diachronic stages.
  • Module 6. NoSketch concordancer + Neo4j alignment-graph queries.
  • Module 7. Final project: a short paper or notebook using AthDGC data and tools.

Fees, certificates, contact

Fees, certificate code, and ECTS recognition will be confirmed on the official KEDIVIM listing closer to term start.

For questions about course content: nlavidas@enl.uoa.gr.

For administrative questions about KEDIVIM registration: kedivim@uoa.gr.

Workshops, talks, and short courses

The AthDGC team also delivers shorter formats at partner institutions and at international conferences:

  • one-hour LightSIDE-AthDGC for syntax workshops (Reveal.js slides shipped in the source repo at slides/lightside_syntax_workshop.qmd);
  • conference demos at LREC-COLING 2026, DH2026, CIDL 2026, and CIVIS alliance member institutions;
  • bespoke training sessions for individual research groups (contact PI).

Funding

Funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI) under the 3rd Call for HFRI Research Projects to support Post-Doctoral Researchers, Project No. 20577; with complementary support from the Greece 2.0 National Recovery and Resilience Plan. Compute supplied by GRNET ARIS (Greek national HPC), allocation pa260305.