Shaping the Future of Humanities with AI
A Textual Research & Analysis Platform — designed to accelerate your research workflow
Apps
Humanitext Antiqua
Ask questions about Greek and Roman literature in your own words. Each response points back to the passages on which it is based, so conversation leads naturally into reading and verification.
Humanitext Aozora
Explore more than 17,000 works from Aozora Bunko through conversation. Answers cite the works and link back to the original text, supporting both discoveries across authors and close inquiry within a single book.
Humanitext OCR
Turn images and PDFs into usable text with AI that takes the document’s context into account. Process many PDFs at once, proofread line by line, and produce searchable PDFs in one continuous workflow.
Humanitext GEO
Humanitext GEO is an interactive visualization that maps the lives, places, and works of ancient Greek and Roman authors across time and space. Combining a timeline with a geographic map powered by ancient world cartography, it lets you explore where classical authors lived, worked, and traveled throughout the Mediterranean. Its Explore feature uses Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to answer questions about ancient cities, drawing on passages written by authors who were active in that era — grounded in primary sources from Greek and Latin literature.
Humanitext Reader
Read Greek and Latin classics sentence by sentence, with the original beside translations in English, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean. Dictionaries and grammatical notes support the reading, while reader feedback steadily improves the library.
Latest News
8/10/2026
Invited Talk "From Digitization to AI-Readiness" at the DiHuCo Hub Symposium 2026
On August 7, 2026, at the DiHuCo Hub Symposium 2026 "Toward Agentic DH" held at Hitotsubashi Hall in Tokyo, Naoya Iwata spoke on the design and sustainability of Humanitext as a text infrastructure for Western classics, in the JST BOOST session.
8/3/2026
Humanitext at DH2026: Three Presentations in Daejeon, South Korea
At DH2026, the ADHO international digital humanities conference held in Daejeon in late July 2026, the Humanitext project presented two short papers and a poster, covering RAG data architecture, user interaction in Humanitext Aozora, and AI video synthesis of classical narratives.
6/29/2026
Humanitext Panel at The Digital Conference 2026, King's College London
On June 25, 2026, Naoya Iwata, Ikko Tanaka, and Jun Ogawa presented the panel "Forging Generative Philology" at The Digital Conference 2026 at King's College London. All three talks are now available on YouTube.
6/18/2026
Naoya Iwata Presented Research to Two ROIS Councils
On June 17–18, 2026, Naoya Iwata gave a research presentation titled "What Should AI Trust? Sources and Authority from the Perspective of Classical Studies" to the Management Council and the Education and Research Council of the Research Organization of Information and Systems.
From the Blog
Project Notes · 8/25/2026
DH2026: AI Translation and the Work of Building Research Infrastructure
Notes from DH2026 in Daejeon: presenting and fielding questions in Japanese with the aid of real-time AI translation, and reflecting on the distance between novelty in research and the less visible work of building infrastructure that scholars actually use.
Project Notes · 8/25/2026
An Oxford Visit: Where Classical Scholarship Meets Digital Technology
We visited Professor Jonathan Prag at Merton College, Oxford, to discuss I.Sicily, his digital corpus of Sicilian inscriptions, its possible connections with Humanitext, and how digital methods and AI are received within classical scholarship — with visits to Keble College and the new humanities centre.
Essays · 5/22/2026
Why Ancient Greeks Hated Philosophers: The Harshest Insults
Socrates was mocked as a poor chatterbox, and philosophers were dismissed as useless in real life. These ancient Greek and Roman insults reveal the irritation and unease that professional thinkers provoked.
Quote Collections · 1/30/2026
Standing by Your Beliefs: Quotes from Watsuji, Miki, and Others
Through quotations from Tetsuro Watsuji, Kiyoshi Miki's Notes on Life, Kanzo Uchimura, and others, we explore a life guided by conviction and conscience rather than results or public opinion.