Michele Ciletti @mikcil.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I'll be starting a PhD in Engineering in Computer Science at Sapienza University this fall! After completing my Master's degree with a thesis on computational methods for Latin lexical semantics, I'm excited to work with the Sapienza NLP team on semantic Small Language Models. See you in Rome 🍝 010
Reposted by Michele CilettiYale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Umanistica Digitale No. 23 (2026) umanisticadigitale.unibo.it/issue/view/1... @aiucd.bsky.social #openaccess Digital Latin. Computational Infrastructures for Research on Latin Language and Literature @emmanuelacarbe.bsky.social @elelitta.bsky.social @mikcil.bsky.social 052
Michele Ciletti @mikcil.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Fun weekend experiment: I built a dataset of ~15,000 Formula 1 team radio messages, with audio recordings and automatic transcriptions! 🏎️ (thread below) huggingface.co/datasets/Mik...huggingface.coMikCil/f1-team-radio · Datasets at Hugging FaceWe’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science. 100
Reposted by Michele CilettiNadia Di Leo @nadiadileo.bsky.social · 21/02/2026Our paper on women's experiences in video games got posted to a GamerGate subreddit. The comments proved our point better than our data did. [thread] 111
Michele Ciletti @mikcil.bsky.social · 25/12/2025Check out an amazing new article by @nadiadileo.bsky.social on postdigital feminism, women's representation in video games, and intersectional experiences in gaming communities. Out now in Postdigital Science and Education! link.springer.com/article/10.1...link.springer.comStressing Out the ‘Damsel in Distress’: Intersectional Shifts in Women’s Representation in Video Games - Postdigital Science and EducationThis paper examines the evolving representation of women in video games, exploring intersectional shifts that challenge longstanding gender stereotypes. Through a qualitative investigation involving s... 041
Michele Ciletti @mikcil.bsky.social · 27/11/2025I'm glad to share that I have been awarded an H2IOSC Transnational Mobility Grant for a research stay at King’s College London! @kingsdh.bsky.social During the visit, I will work with Barbara McGillivray and Andrea Farina to develop a semi-automatic semantic annotation pipeline [...] 150
Michele Ciletti @mikcil.bsky.social · 27/10/2025Excited to speak at "AI and Digital Humanities: Methodological Approaches, Theories and Methods" at the Univ. of Siena on Nov. 5! I’ll discuss how historical linguistics can partner with AI, presenting a study on Latin prosody. Check out the program and join us online: www.unisi.it/unisilife/ev... 030
Michele Ciletti @mikcil.bsky.social · 27/09/2025This week I had a lot of fun in Cagliari at #clicit2025! I presented a paper titled "Veras Audire Et Reddere Voces: A Corpus of Prosodically-Correct Latin Poetic Audio from Large-Language-Model TTS". Check out the pre-proceedings here: clic2025.unica.it/pre-proceedi... 040
Michele Ciletti @mikcil.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Excited to be in Cagliari for #clicit2025! I'll be presenting a paper on text-to-speech LLMs and Latin prosody - check out the full program! 021
Reposted by Michele CilettiDraCor @dracor.org · 01/09/2025✨ We're kicking off the #DraCorSummit 2025 in Berlin today! 5 days of digital drama analysis, enhancing #DraCor, and celebrating #OpenScience with participants from around the world at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. Programme: summit.dracor.org @temporal-communities.de @unipotsdam.bsky.social 02719
Michele Ciletti @mikcil.bsky.social · 25/07/2025Next week, I will be attending #ACL2025 to present a paper on generating prosodically-accurate Latin poetry recordings with LLMs. Pretty excited to be there for the first time! Check it out: aclanthology.org/2025.acl-srw...aclanthology.orgPrompting the Muse: Generating Prosodically-Correct Latin Speech with Large Language ModelsMichele Ciletti. Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 4: Student Research Workshop). 2025. 130
Michele Ciletti @mikcil.bsky.social · 23/07/2025I had a lot of fun presenting a paper on tracing temporal changes in communities during transition periods via network analysis - starting from a case study on a WWII-era newspaper - at #DH2025. My slides are available on Zenodo for anyone interested! doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 052
Michele Ciletti @mikcil.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Final day at #DH2025 - do not miss an awesome panel on open language data sharing & reuse! Pass by Auditorium B3 at 14:00 if you are interested. 141
Reposted by Michele CilettiSabine Lang @sabinelang.bsky.social · 17/07/2025And now our @anastasiaglawion.bsky.social and Dhara Lechner presenting on editorial shifts in the Grimm brothers‘ tales! Focusing especially on the relation between speech acts and gender 🤩🤩 Such an exciting project!!! #dh2025 @dhssfau.bsky.social 0217
Reposted by Michele CilettiSabine Lang @sabinelang.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Our first panel focused on looking at time in linguistic data: Michele Ciletti presented the corpus the „Foggia Occupator“ #dh2025 295
Michele Ciletti @mikcil.bsky.social · 15/07/2025First day in Lisbon at #DH2025! If you're interested in temporal data, pass by room B203 for the awesome mini-conference "The Times They Are A Changin in Digital Humanities" 0175
Michele Ciletti @mikcil.bsky.social · 09/07/2025Just back from a week in the UK where I took part in two awesome Classics events! First I attended the workshop “Data-Driven Classics: Interdisciplinary Connections through Shared Data” at King's College London. 120
Reposted by Michele CilettiNadia Di Leo @nadiadileo.bsky.social · 08/07/2025Just concluded an enriching Youth and Horror: An International Conference where I presented 'Fear Frames: Catharsis through Horror Manga and Anime.' The global reach of this conference provided incredible insights into how different cultures approach horror media and youth engagement! 132
Reposted by Michele CilettiAnastasia Glawion @anastasiaglawion.bsky.social · 07/07/2025Starting our sneak peak at the #Miniconference on #TemporalData! Panel 1: @mikcil.bsky.social Michele Ciletti uses NER & network analysis to trace shifting narratives and growing ties between the military & locals in The Foggia Occupator (1945–46), a US military newspaper in postwar Italy. #DH2025 1216
Michele Ciletti @mikcil.bsky.social · 13/06/2025It was great to take part in #ACH2025 - probably the only DH conference with a dedicated 2D world and pixel avatars! I presented two papers broadly focused on community - one on academic connections on Mastodon, and the other on the newly published Foggia Occupator Dataset. 151
Michele Ciletti @mikcil.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Thrilled to be in Verona at #AIUCD2025 - I'll be presenting a poster this afternoon on RAG, digital archives and historical newspapers. Come say hi! @aiucd.bsky.social 071
Reposted by Michele CilettiAIUCD @aiucd.bsky.social · 11/06/2025#AIUCD2025 in numbers The AIUCD 2025 proceedings are available on Umanistica Digitale: amsacta.unibo.it/id/eprint/83... (more than 660 pp! 😵💫) 044
Reposted by Michele CilettiAIUCD @aiucd.bsky.social · 10/06/2025AIUCD on the Sky! Inizia questa settimana #AIUCD2025: un’occasione per ritrovarsi, discutere, esplorare modelli e pratiche per le DH 👉 Il programma della conferenza: aiucd2025.dlls.univr.it/detailed-sch... 📡 Qui condivideremo aggiornamenti, link, momenti dal convegno 🖖 A presto a Verona!aiucd2025.dlls.univr.itAIUCD2025 | Programma dettagliato 075
Michele Ciletti @mikcil.bsky.social · 08/06/2025Had a lot of fun talking about Murakami, networks and lost cats with @nadiadileo.bsky.social at @icsexchange.bsky.social 031
Michele Ciletti @mikcil.bsky.social · 23/05/2025I wrote a blog post about newspapers, LLMs and historical research for the awesome Digital History team of the University of Bielefeld - you can check it out here: digihistbie.hypotheses.org/443 Glad to have been part of their Digital Academy! 020
Michele Ciletti @mikcil.bsky.social · 18/05/2025Looking forward to #AIUCD2025 in Verona - check out the program: aiucd2025.dlls.univr.it/detailed-sch...aiucd2025.dlls.univr.itAIUCD2025 | Programma dettagliato 020
Reposted by Michele CilettiNadia Di Leo @nadiadileo.bsky.social · 10/04/2025I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be joining the Youth & Horror: An International Conference at the University of Birmingham on 1–2 July 2025! I’m excited to share my work on “Fear frames: catharsis through horror manga and anime” during the Creative Methodologies panel. #YouthAndHorror 131
Reposted by Michele CilettiNadia Di Leo @nadiadileo.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Excited to share my latest project! I've developed an interactive dataset that dives into Reddit posts and comments about OMORI. This platform features a dynamic timeline to explore conversations and trends on the game. Check out the demo video to see the platform in action! #OMORI #InteractiveData 1103
Reposted by Michele CilettiJCLS @jcls-io.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Did you know? 🤔 Our journal offers two submission tracks: 1️⃣ Conference Track: 📅 CfP in January → Full paper submission 🔍 Double-blind peer review for quality control 📖 Preprint in the Conference Reader 💬 Open peer feedback at the summer conference 📝 Revision & publication in autumn #CCLS25 #CLSjcls.ioJournal of Computational Literary Studies 1104
Reposted by Michele CilettiICS exchange 2025 @icsexchange.bsky.social · 26/03/2025❗ There are still a few days left to submit your abstracts! 🧑🏻💻 Send your contribution before March 29 and come visit us in Italy 011
Michele Ciletti @mikcil.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Excited to share that my paper on applying RAG to digital archives has been accepted to #AIUCD2025! See you in Verona to talk about digitised newspapers and AI 🗞️ 032
Reposted by Michele CilettiACH @ach.bsky.social · 14/03/2025ACH 2025 will be held June 11-13, 2025. See our CFP here. Submissions are due March 23! ach2025.ach.org/en/cfp/ach2025.ach.orgACH 2025 CFP 01110
Reposted by Michele CilettiFabio Ciotti @fabio-ciotti.bsky.social · 20/02/2025CfP: Artificial Intelligence and Digital Humanities: Methodological approaches, theories and methods Siena, Nov. 4-5, 2025 Keynote speakers: Fredric Clavert, Fabio Ciotti Interested authors are invited to submit (to fabio.deninno@unisi.it and michele.lacriola@unisi.it) an abstract by May 15, 2025. 031
Michele Ciletti @mikcil.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Come visit us in Italy! DH scholars from all fields, early-career researchers and students are welcome 🫶🏻 010
Michele Ciletti @mikcil.bsky.social · 19/01/2025Really putting the "winter" in "winter school" today 010
Michele Ciletti @mikcil.bsky.social · 31/12/2024New Year resolution: going back to *fun* personal websites mmm.page/michelecilet...mmm.pagemmm.page — Your Corner of the InternetWebsites don't have to be so cookie cutter. Make a website that feels uniquely you in under five minutes. 010
Michele Ciletti @mikcil.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Spent this #DayofDH2024 polishing up a newspaper dataset I'm working on - can't wait to share it soon - and fighting a flu... Time to catch up with all the awesome projects posted here! 080
Michele Ciletti @mikcil.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Hi everyone! Finally joining the fun on Bluesky as a Mastodon regular. I'm seeing so many digital humanists - can't wait to dive in! 050