Humanitext Team to Present at PNC 2025 Annual Conference

Humanitext Team to Present Latest Research at PNC 2025 Annual Conference

We are excited to announce that the Humanitext project team will be presenting our latest research in three separate papers at the upcoming PNC 2025 Annual Conference and Joint Meetings. The conference will be held from September 20-22, 2025, at the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences in Hanoi, Vietnam.

This year’s conference theme is “Mind Meets Machine: Rethinking Intelligence and Knowledge in the Age of AI.” The PNC is a key international forum for advancing the collaboration between digital technology and the humanities, providing us with a valuable opportunity to share our work. Our presentations will cover core themes of the Humanitext project, including enhancing search accuracy for classical texts, developing a data model to integrate annotations with source texts, and leveraging large language models to extract textual references.

Presentation Details

• Integrating Dense and Sparse Vector Retrieval via Context-Oriented Translation for Enhanced Semantic Search in Western Classical Texts
  Naoya Iwata, Ikko Tanaka, Jun Ogawa
  PNC 2025 Annual Conference and Joint Meetings, September 20, 2025

• A Data Model for Integrating Annotations with Western Classical Texts for an AI Dialogue System
  Jun Ogawa, Naoya Iwata, Ikko Tanaka
  PNC 2025 Annual Conference and Joint Meetings, September 21, 2025

• A Method for Extracting References to Original Texts in Western Classical Commentaries using Large Language Models
  Ikko Tanaka, Jun Ogawa, Naoya Iwata
  PNC 2025 Annual Conference and Joint Meetings, September 21, 2025

These presentations showcase our multi-faceted approach to unlocking new possibilities in humanities research through AI.

We look forward to sharing our findings with the international research community and receiving valuable feedback. Stay tuned for more updates from the conference!