May 4, 2025

9:00 - 9:05: Opening Remarks

9:05 - 9:35: Invited Talks

The Role of “Small” Models for Ancient NLP in a World of Large Language Models

Dr. Patrick J. Burns

9:35 - 10:35: Oral Reports A (Part 1)

Automatic Text Segmentation of Ancient and Historic Hebrew

Elisha Rosensweig, Benjamin Resnick, Hillel Gershuni, Joshua Guedalia, Nachum Dershowitz and Avi Shmidman

Integrating Semantic and Statistical Features for Authorial Clustering of Qumran Scrolls

Yonatan Lourie, Jonathan Ben-Dov and Roded Sharan

Assignment of account type to proto-cuneiform economic texts with Multi-Class Support Vector Machines

Piotr Zadworny and Shai Gordin

Accessible Sanskrit: A Cascading System for Text Analysis and Dictionary Access

Giacomo De Luca

10:35 - 10:55: Break

10:55 - 11:10: Oral Reports A (Part 2)

A Dataset of Ancient Chinese Math Word Problems and an Application for Research in Historic Mathematics

Florian Keßler

11:10 - 11:45: Poster

Using Cross-Linguistic Data Formats to Enhance the Annotation of Ancient Chinese Documents Written on Bamboo Slips

Michele Pulini and Johann-Mattis List

Towards an Integrated Methodology of Dating Biblical Texts: The Case of the Book of Jeremiah

Martijn Naaijer and Aren Wilson-Wright

The Development of Hebrew in Antiquity – A Computational Linguistic Study

Hallel Baitner, dimid duchovny, Lee-Ad Gottlieb, Amir Yorav, Nachum Dershowitz and Eshbal Ratzon

Evaluating Evaluation Metrics for Ancient Chinese to English Machine Translation

Eric R. Bennett, HyoJung Han, Xinchen Yang, Andrew Schonebaum and Marine Carpuat

Neural Models for Lemmatization and POS-Tagging of Earlier and Late Egyptian (Supporting Hieroglyphic Input) and Demotic

Aleksi Sahala and Eliese-Sophia Lincke

Bringing Suzhou Numerals into the Digital Age: A Dataset and Recognition Study on Ancient Chinese Trade Records

Ting-Lin Wu, Zih-Ching Chen, Chen-Yuan Chen, Pi-Jhong Chen and Li-Chiao Wang

The Historian’s Fingerprint: Computational Stylometric Analysis of the Zuo Com-mentary and Discourses of the States

Wenjie Hua

11:50 - 13:30: Lunch

13:30 - 14:00: Invited Talks

Ancient languages in the age of LLMs: opportunities and challenges

Dr. Donald Sturgeon

14:00 - 15:30: EvaHan

Opening and Invited Talk

Prof. Zhiwei Feng

Overview of EvaHan2025: The First International Evaluation on Ancient Chinese Named Entity Recognition

Bin Li, Bolin Chang, Ruilin Liu, Xue Zhao, Si Shen, Lihong Liu, Yan Zhu, Zhixing Xu, Weiguang QU and Dongbo Wang

Exploring the Application of 7B LLMs for Named Entity Recognition in Chinese Ancient Texts

yicheng zhu and han bi

Construction of NER Model in Ancient Chinese: Solution of EvaHan 2025 Chal-lenge

Yi Lu and Minyi Lei

LLM’s Weakness in NER Doesn’t Stop It from Enhancing a Stronger SLM

Weilu Xu, Renfei Dang and Shujian Huang

Named Entity Recognition in Context: Edit_Dunhuang team Technical Report for Evahan2025 NER Competition

Colin Brisson, Ayoub Kahfy, Marc Bui and Frédéric Constant

Simple Named Entity Recognition (NER) System with RoBERTa for Ancient Chinese

Yunmeng Zhang, Meiling Liu, Hanqi Tang, Shige Lu and Lang Xue

Make Good Use of GujiRoBERTa to Identify Entities in Ancient Chinese

Lihan Lin, Yiming Wang, Jiachen Li, Huan Ouyang and Si Li

GRoWE: A GujiRoBERTa-Enhanced Approach to Ancient Chinese NER via Word-Word Relation Classification and Model Ensembling

tian Xia, yilin wang, xinkai Wang, Qun Zhao and Menghui Yang

When Less Is More: Logits-Constrained Framework with RoBERTa for Ancient Chi-nese NER

Wenjie Hua and Shenghan Xu

15:30 - 15:50: Break

15:50 - 16:30: EvaCun

EvaCun 2025 Shared Task: Lemmatization and Token Prediction in Akkadian and Sumerian using LLMs

Shai Gordin, Aleksi Sahala, Shahar Spencer and Stav Klein

Lemmatization of Cuneiform Languages Using the ByT5 Model

Pengxiu Lu, Yonglong Huang, Jing Xu, Minxuan Feng and Chao Xu

Finetuning LLMs for EvaCun 2025 token prediction shared task

Josef Jon and Ondˇrej Bojar

Beyond Base Predictors: Using LLMs to Resolve Ambiguities in Akkadian Lemma-tization

Frederick Riemenschneider

A Low-Shot Prompting Approach to Lemmatization in the EvaCun 2025 Shared Task

John Sbur, Brandi Wilkins, Elizabeth Paul and Yudong Liu

16:30 - 17:45: Oral Reports B

From Clay to Code: Transforming Hittite Texts for Machine Learning

Emma Yavasan and Shai Gordin

Towards Ancient Meroitic Decipherment: A Computational Approach

Joshua N. Otten and Antonios Anastasopoulos

Detecting Honkadori based on Waka Embeddings

Hayato Ogawa, Kaito Horio and Daisuke Kawahara

Incorporating Lexicon-Aligned Prompting in Large Language Model for Tangut–Chinese Translation

Yuxi Zheng and Jingsong Yu

ParsiPy: NLP Toolkit for Historical Persian Texts in Python

Farhan Farsi, Parnian Fazel, Sepand Haghighi, Sadra Sabouri, Farzaneh Goshtasb, Nadia Hajipour, Ehsaneddin Asgari and Hossein Sameti

17:45 - 17:50: Awards, Open Discussion and Closing