News – Announcements

ILSP 2024 Annual Report

The Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP) has released its 2024 Annual Activity Report, highlighting a year of major milestones and impactful innovation across language and cultural tech ...

Call for Applications: MSc in Digital Humanities (2025–2026)

27/05/2025

The MSc in Digital Humanities, jointly organised by the University of Athens, the University of Cyprus and the ATHENA Research Centre, is now accepting applications for the academic year 2025–2026. ...

Katerina Pastra elected President of the Hellenic Artificial Intelligence Association

27/02/2025

It is with great pleasure that we announce the election of the ILSP/“Athena” R.C. Researcher, Katerina Pastra, as President of the Hellenic Artificial Intelligence Association (EETN) for the next term ...

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Celebrating International Greek Language Day: ILSP unveils Llama-Krikri, a next generation Greek Large Language Model

09/02/2025

On the occasion of International Greek Language Day, the Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP) of the Athena Research Center (Athena RC) proudly announces the launch of Llama-Krikri-8B, ...

University of Crete students visit the Institute for Language and Speech Processing

30/01/2025

On January 30, 2025, ILSP welcomed 12 students from the University of Crete, following an initiative by Dr. Maria Papadopoulou, Assistant Professor and Project Manager & Head of the Research Team ...

Memorandum of Cooperation with the German Archaeological Institute of Athens

28/01/2025

The Institute for Language and Speech Processing of the Athena Research Center and the German Archaeological Institute of Athens (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut – DAI), have concluded a Memorandum ...

New MSc in Digital Humanities

09/12/2024

A new master’s program in Digital Humanities, offered by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in collaboration with the University of Cyprus and the ATHENA Research Centre, is starting i ...

ILSP at AthenaForum2024: Driving Innovation and Collaboration in Digital Technologies

03/12/2024

The Institute for Language and Speech Processing, a proud research unit of the Athena Research Centre, made a significant impact at the AthenaForum2024, which celebrated advancements in digital techno ...

Annual Report 2023

26/07/2024

The ILSP 2023 annual activity report is now published. What a year! The start of 2023 founds us all amazed by the launch of ChatGPT, which was soon followed by the release of GPT-4. The field of op ...

New MSc in Digital Humanities

31/05/2024

A new master’s program in Digital Humanities, offered by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in collaboration with the University of Cyprus and the ATHENA Research Centre, is starting i ...