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Jacob Murel

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I have long adored Classics. As part of an undergraduate minor in Classics, my honors thesis consisted of a translation and comic book adaptation of Book II of Virgil’s Aeneid. This project birthed my interest in textual reception. My dissertation, completed for my English Ph.D. at Northeastern University, integrated computational text analysis and material methodologies to explore text reception in relation to early medical practice. My subsequent post-doc in Northeastern’s Computer Science College allowed me to further my interest in textual reception/circulation while deepening my skills in computational bibliography. As one member of a Mellon-funded project with the Open Islamicate Texts Initiative, I developed methods for improving Arabic HTR using multiple text exemplars of Islamicate manuscripts. Throughout these experiences, I have assisted on numerous other digital research projects (e.g. the Women Writers Project, Digital Humanities Quarterly, etc.) and published myriad peer-reviewed articles and technical conference proceedings on digital methodologies in a range of fields, from comics studies to early modern paleography.

My work on the Logion Project broadly aims to develop the project into a tool more readily accessible to philologists. I simultaneously research avenues for improving the performance of Logion’s large language models for diverse texts and philological research tasks.