About
Mark Depauw is a Professor at the Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven. He leads the Research Group Antiquity, Leuven and is deeply involved in digital humanities initiatives, particularly through the Trismegistos project and its extensions like Trismegistos+ and STUDIUM.AI. His work bridges classical studies with computational methods.
Research Focus:
- Quantitative analysis of classical text reception in early modern Europe
- Network analysis of ancient literary and social connections
- Development of digital infrastructures (GLAUx Treebank, Trismegistos) for ancient textual studies
- Application of transformer models and named entity recognition to Greek and Latin texts
Membership & Collaborations:
- Member of the Faculty Council of Arts
- Part of KU Leuven Institute for Digital Society (DigiSoc)
- Core contributor to LECTIO for textual transmission studies
- Collaborator on international projects like CLARIAH-VL+ and NIKAW
Teaching: He contributes to courses in historical data management, Greek papyrology, and digital research methods. His pedagogical approach integrates computational tools with classical scholarship.
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