Farnoosh Shamsian | Publications

Journal Papers

Shamsian, F., Berti, M. (2026)

Annotating Named Entities in the Trilingual Inscription at Ka’ba-ye Zartošt (ŠKZ)

Digital Classics Online., Bd. 12, 101-123 Seiten. https://doi.org/10.11588/DCO.2026.12.112297
Crane, G., Kazmierski, S., Babeu, A., & Shamsian, F. (2026)

Towards a Smart Edition of Apollodorus’ Library

Digital Classics Online,Bd. 12, 1-22 Seiten. https://doi.org/10.11588/DCO.2026.12.114797
Shamsian, F., Rahimi, F., Sarabi, A. M., Mohammadi, N., Nikpoor, K., & Assimi, S. (2025)

Word-aligned Parallel Corpus of Plato’s Crito in Persian: A Pedagogical Approach to Digital Annotations

Journal of Open Humanities Data, 11, 78. https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.398
Crane, G., Babeu, A., Shamsian, F.(2025)

Greek, Latin and Augmented Intelligence: The Other AI

The Classical Review, pages 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009840X25000356
C. Palladino, Shamsian, F., Yousef, T., d’Orange Ferreira, A., Ferreira dos Reis, M. (2023)

Translation Alignment for Ancient Greek: Annotation Guidelines and Gold Standards

Journal of Open Humanities Data, 9 (1). https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10.5334/johd.131
Crane, G., Babeu, A., Shamsian, F., Cerrato, L., Penagos, C., Parrish, A., Tauber, J., & Wegner, J. (2023)

Beyond translation: engaging with foreign languages in a digital library

International Journal on Digital Libraries,Volume 24, pages 163–176. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-023-00349-2
Shamsian, F., & Crane, G. (2022)

Open Resources for Corpus-Based Learning of Ancient Greek in Persian

Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, 2022, 21. https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/read/open-resources-for-corpus-based-learning-of-ancient-greek-in-persian/section/2a96a89e-a4f8-4d47-bf78-f1d9a5b671bd
Palladino, C., Shamsian, F., & Yousef, T. (2022)

Using Parallel Corpora to Evaluate Translations of Ancient Greek Literary Texts

Journal of Computational Literary Studies, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.48694/JCLS.100
Yousef, T., Palladino, C., Shamsian, F., & Foradi, M. (2022)

Translation Alignment with Ugarit

Information5 , 13(2), 65. https://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/13/2/65

Conference Papers

Shamsian, F. (2026)

Modular Annotation Framework for Ancient Greek Pedagogy

Semantic Annotation for the Ancient World (SA4AW), , University of Crete. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.19852345
Crane, G., Babeu, A., Kazmierski, S., & Shamsian, F. (2024)

Towards a Smart Edition of Apollodorus’ Library

Digital Methods for Mythological Research, Aarhus, Denmark. https://dm4myth.github.io/
Shamsian, F., Crane, G., & Rahimi, F. (2024)

Adapting Digital Annotations for Teaching Ancient Greek in Persian

DH Benelux 2024, Leuven, Belgium. https://2024.dhbenelux.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/DHB24_paper_Shamsian_Crane_Rahimi.pdf
Craig, C., Goyal, K., Smith, D., Shamsian, F., & Crane, G. (2023)

Testing the Limits of Neural Sentence Alignment Models on Classical Greek and Latin Texts and Translations

Fourth Conference on Computational Humanities Research, Paris. https://2023.computational-humanities-research.org/.
Yousef, T., Palladino, C., Shamsian, F., d’Orange Ferreira, A., & Ferreira dos Reis, M. (2022)

An automatic model and Gold Standard for translation alignment of Ancient Greek

Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference , 5894–5905. https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.634
Shamsian, F., & Crane, G. (2022)

Corpus-based translation training: Enhancing translations from a historical language

Translation in Transition 6, Prague. https://tt2022.ff.cuni.cz/wp-content/uploads/sites/69/2022/09/tt2022_book_of_abstracts.pdf

Conference Presentations

Shamsian, F. (2024)

The Reception of Thucydides in Iran

Global Thucydides: Editors, Readers, Translators (1848-2024), Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy. https://www.unive.it/data/agenda/1/90784
Shamsian, F., Rahimi, F., Crane, G., & Ferreira, A. D. (2024)

Localizing Ancient Greek Grammar and Annotations with Didakta

DH 2024, Washington, D.C.
Palladino, C., Shamsian, F., & Yousef, T. (2024)

Disentangling Babel: How patterns of disagreement in parallel corpora can contribute to improving Translation Alignment guidelines and Gold Standard design for Ancient Greek

DH 2024, Washington, D.C.
Shamsian, F., & Crane, G. (2023)

Re-reading Plato In Persian: Linguistic Diversity Through Digital Annotations

Res Difficiles 4, University of Mary Washington. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fX4IAnZo-4
Yousef, T., Shamsian, F., & Palladino, C. (2023)

Classical Philology in the Time of AI: Exploring the Potential of Parallel Corpora in Ancient Languages

ALP2023 , Bulgaria. https://www.ancientnlp.com/alp2023/program/
Crane, G., Shamsian, F., Babeu, A., Tauber, J., & Wegner, J. (2022)

New ways to read Greek and Persian epic and to explore diverse cultures

DH2022, Tokyo. https://dh2022.dhii.asia/dh2022bookofabsts.pdf
Palladino, C., Shamsian, F., Yousef, T. (2022)

Using Parallel Corpora to Evaluate Translations of Ancient Greek Literary Texts

1st Annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies , Darmstadt.
Crane, G., Babeu, A., Foradi, M., Shamsian, F., Rossini, C., & Tauber, J. (2020)

Beyond Translation: language hacking and new pathways into language

DH2020, Ottawa. https://dh2020.adho.org/abstracts/
Crane, G., Jovanovic, N., Foradi, M., Sklaviadis, S., de Luca, M., Shamsian, F., Šoštarić, P., Tauber, J., Cottrell, K., & Palladino, C. (2019)

Confronting Complexity of Babel in a Global and Digital Age

DH 2019, Utrecht.

Workshops, Seminars and Talks

Crane, G., Shamsian, F., Kasmierski, S., Cerrato, L., Babeu, A., Pletcher, C., & Tauber, J. (2024)

A Born-Digital Edition of Homer and New Infrastructure for Open Philology

Digital Classicist Seminar, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin. https://digital-classicist.bbaw.de/programme/programm-2024/25
Palladino, C., Shamsian, F., & Yousef, T. (2024)

Parallel Text Processing and Translation Alignment with Ugarit

DH 2024, Washington, D.C.
Palladino, C., Shamsian, F., Yousef, T., & Kanagawa, N. (2022)

Ugarit: Translation Alignment Technologies for Under-resourced Languages

DH2022, Tokyo. https://dh2022.adho.org/workshops-and-tutorials/wt-11
Shamsian, F. (2022, 2023 & 2024)

Depiction of Alexander the Great in Persian literature

Department of Classics, Mount Allison University.
Shamsian, F. (2022)

Learning Ancient Greek in Persian through Digital Annotations

Digital Classicist Seminar, University of London. https://youtu.be/ACRkAD9AzYw
Shamsian, F. (2022)

Reading Homeric Epics in Persian

Kolloquium Alte Geschichte, Leipzig University.
Shamsian, F., & Crane, G. (2021)

Teaching Greek in the 21st Century

Kosmos Online Open House, Harvard University. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6kdP_IwjTc
Shamsian, F., Palladino, C., & Shukhosvili, M. (2021)

Translation and Text Alignment

SunoikisisDC 2021, Leipzig University. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-E9bB0laKk&t=27s
Foradi, M., & Shamsian, F. (2019)

Translation alignment and Language Pedagogy

SunoikisisDC Spring 2019, Leipzig University. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVpeUQiZrSQ&t=3617s
Foradi, M., & Shamsian, F. (2019)

A digital learning environment for classical languages (Greek and Persian)

15th Congress of the Fédération internationale des associations d’études classiques and the Classical Association annual conference 2019 , London.
Foradi, M., Shamsian, F., & Keramati, A. (2018)

Teaching Greek to Persian Speakers with Treebanking and Alignment

SunoikisisDC Summer 2018, Leipzig University. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0yzg4W0XvQ
Foradi, M., & Shamsian, F. (2017)

Translation Alignment: Possibilities of Language Learning and Vocabulary Training

SunoikisisDC Spring 2017, Leipzig University. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBcvbj8ciz8

Datasets & Online Content

Shamsian, F., & Smyth, H. W. (2024)

Didakta Grammar for Annotation (English)

Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11216456
Rahimi, F., Shamsian, F., & Smyth, H. W. (2024)

Didakta Grammar for Annotation (Kurdish)

Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11221442
Shamsian, F., Assimi, S., Mahmoudzadeh Sarabi, A., Mohammadi, N., Nikpour, K., & Rahimi, F. (2023)

Persian Translations of Crito, Three Versions with Word-level Alignment

Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8333681
Shamsian, F. (2023)

Alignment Guidelines for Classical Greek-Persian

Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8039931
Shamsian, F., & Rahimi, F. (2023)

Book One of The Iliad, Persian and Kurdish Translation with Word-level Alignment to the Treebank, Didakta Annotations and Glossary

Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.8318111
Shamsian, F., Assimi, S., Sarabi, A. M., Mohammadi, N., Nikpour, K., & Rahimi, F. (2023)

Sentence-aligned student translations of Crito (Ancient Greek, English, German, Persian)

Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8273374
Palladino, C., Shamsian, F. and Yousef, T. (2022)

Translation Alignment: Ancient Greek to English. Annotation Style Guide and Gold Standard

Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7362097

Translations and Other Publications

Shamsian, F. (2023)

Review of: Persians: the age of the great kings

Bryn Mawr Classical Review . https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2023/2023.04.28/
Crane, G., Shamsian, F. (translator) (2022)

Achilles and Odysseus, Formulaic Counterparts of Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum

Classical Continuum , Harvard University. https://continuum.fas.harvard.edu/achilles-and-odysseus-formulaic-counterparts-of-tweedle-dee-and-tweedle-dum-persian/
Nagy, G., Shamsian, F. (translator) (2022)

Orality and Literacy

Classical Continuum, Harvard University. https://chs.harvard.edu/curated-article/orality-and-literacy-persian-translation/m
Nagy, G., Shamsian, F. (translator) (2022)

Poetics of Repetition in Homer

Classical Continuum, Harvard University.https://continuum.fas.harvard.edu/%d8%a8%d9%88%d8%b7%db%8c%d9%82%d8%a7%db%8c-%d8%aa%da%a9%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%b1-%d8%af%d8%b1-%d9%87%d9%88%d9%85%d8%b1/

Journal Papers

Annotating Named Entities in the Trilingual Inscription at Ka’ba-ye Zartošt (ŠKZ)

Towards a Smart Edition of Apollodorus’ Library

Word-aligned Parallel Corpus of Plato’s Crito in Persian: A Pedagogical Approach to Digital Annotations

Greek, Latin and Augmented Intelligence: The Other AI

Translation Alignment for Ancient Greek: Annotation Guidelines and Gold Standards

Beyond translation: engaging with foreign languages in a digital library

Open Resources for Corpus-Based Learning of Ancient Greek in Persian

Using Parallel Corpora to Evaluate Translations of Ancient Greek Literary Texts

Translation Alignment with Ugarit

Conference Papers

Modular Annotation Framework for Ancient Greek Pedagogy

Towards a Smart Edition of Apollodorus’ Library

Adapting Digital Annotations for Teaching Ancient Greek in Persian

Testing the Limits of Neural Sentence Alignment Models on Classical Greek and Latin Texts and Translations

An automatic model and Gold Standard for translation alignment of Ancient Greek

Corpus-based translation training: Enhancing translations from a historical language

Conference Presentations

The Reception of Thucydides in Iran

Localizing Ancient Greek Grammar and Annotations with Didakta

Disentangling Babel: How patterns of disagreement in parallel corpora can contribute to improving Translation Alignment guidelines and Gold Standard design for Ancient Greek

Re-reading Plato In Persian: Linguistic Diversity Through Digital Annotations

Classical Philology in the Time of AI: Exploring the Potential of Parallel Corpora in Ancient Languages

New ways to read Greek and Persian epic and to explore diverse cultures

Using Parallel Corpora to Evaluate Translations of Ancient Greek Literary Texts

Beyond Translation: language hacking and new pathways into language

Confronting Complexity of Babel in a Global and Digital Age

Workshops, Seminars and Talks

A Born-Digital Edition of Homer and New Infrastructure for Open Philology

Parallel Text Processing and Translation Alignment with Ugarit

Ugarit: Translation Alignment Technologies for Under-resourced Languages

Depiction of Alexander the Great in Persian literature

Learning Ancient Greek in Persian through Digital Annotations

Reading Homeric Epics in Persian

Teaching Greek in the 21st Century

Translation and Text Alignment

Translation alignment and Language Pedagogy

A digital learning environment for classical languages (Greek and Persian)

Teaching Greek to Persian Speakers with Treebanking and Alignment

Translation Alignment: Possibilities of Language Learning and Vocabulary Training

Datasets & Online Content

Didakta Grammar for Annotation (English)

Didakta Grammar for Annotation (Kurdish)

Persian Translations of Crito, Three Versions with Word-level Alignment

Alignment Guidelines for Classical Greek-Persian

Book One of The Iliad, Persian and Kurdish Translation with Word-level Alignment to the Treebank, Didakta Annotations and Glossary

Sentence-aligned student translations of Crito (Ancient Greek, English, German, Persian)

Translation Alignment: Ancient Greek to English. Annotation Style Guide and Gold Standard

Translations and Other Publications

Review of: Persians: the age of the great kings

Achilles and Odysseus, Formulaic Counterparts of Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum

Orality and Literacy

Poetics of Repetition in Homer