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19/8/2025 Release of the DMC Lexi Dataset (v1.0)

19/08/2025

We are pleased to announce the first public release of the DMC Lexi Dataset (v1.0), a structured, open-access digital resource of Cyril’s Lexicon.

This dataset represents a major step toward the comprehensive documentation and analysis of one of the most voluminous and under-edited lexica in the Greek tradition. 

What’s included in the dataset: 

  • Image-transcription alignment metadata (together with images from one manuscript)
  • Manuscript metadata in structured CSV formats 
  • Per-manuscript and merged lemma/definition files 
  • Tools and guidance for reuse in scholarly or digital applications 

Who is this for? 

  • For philologists and textual scholars, it offers structured data to aid in manuscript collation, recension analysis, and editorial work. 
  • For digital humanists and computational classicists, it provides machine-readable formats ready for HTR training, text mining, stemmatic reconstruction, and database integration. 

Access the dataset: 

We invite researchers to explore, reuse, and contribute to the dataset—and help lay the foundation for the long-awaited critical edition of Cyril’s Lexicon.

30/7/2025 Participation in Conference

30/07/2025

As part of the DH2025 annual conference of ADHO, titled “Building Access and Accessibility: Open Science to All Citizens”, held in Lisbon (14–18 July 2025, NOVA-FCSH), our research team had an active presence.

A representative member of the DMC-Lexi team presented the paper “HTR for Byzantine manuscripts: recognising Ioannes Chrysostomus, Maximus Planudes, and Cyril of Alexandria” during the thematic workshop “Ὅσοι ἄνθρωποι, τοσαῦται γνῶμαι: Harmonizing Guidelines for Handwritten Text Recognition of Ancient Greek.”

The presentation highlighted the outcomes of our collaborative work on the transcription of manuscripts of Cyril’s Lexicon, focusing on the challenges we encountered while applying Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) technologies. Best practices were discussed, along with proposals for the development of uniform and well-documented standards, aiming to make each transcription not only more accurate but also more useful for digital processing and analysis.

25/7/2025 Participation in Conference

26/07/2025

Members of the DMC-Lexi team presented the Project’s work on identification of new manuscripts “A Systematic Approach to Identifying Unattributed Ancient Lexica: The Case of Cyril’s Lexicon” at the International Conference on Historical Lexicography and Lexicology “Selected pages from selected dictionaries” 24-27 June 2025, Lisbon, Portugal. See the Book of abstracts.

4/11/2024 Participation in Conference

26/07/2025

Snapshots from the International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques (IST2024), held from October 14–16, 2024, in Tokyo, Japan.
The title of our team’s presentation was: “Cyril’s Lexicon Layout Analysis through Deep Learning.

Despoina Ioakeimidou, Stavros N. Moutsis, Konstantinos Evangelidis, Konstantinos A. Tsintotas, Panagiotis E. Nastou, Elpida Perdiki, Emmanouil Ginidis, Nikos Tsoukatos, Antonis Tsolomitis, Maria Konstantinidou, and Stamatios Busses.

29/10/2024 Participation in Conference

26/07/2025

Professor Stamatis Bousés presented at the conference titled “Die heutige Forschung an diesem greulichsten aller Wörterbücher”: Das sogenannte Kyrill-Lexikon und neue Forschungswege, which took place from October 21–23, 2024, in Como, Italy, the paper: “Il «Lessico di Cirillo» nel manoscritto Haghios Gerasimos 1”, based on the research findings of the project. Also participating in the same conference was Dr. Dimitrios Papanikolaou, Laboratory Teaching Staff member, who presented the paper: “Cyrillus Alexandrinus vel Byzantius? Possible Directions towards an Edition of the Lexicon Cyrilli according to Recensions.” During the conference’s round table, the “Lexicon of Cyril” project was also presented.