Distinguished Assistant Professor Sebastian Nehrdich's collaborative research project has been selected for the scholarship of HAVI Program.
Dec.15.2025
Distinguished Assistant Professor Sebastian Nehrdich's collaborative research project “Augmenting Retrieval for Eurasian Languages” has been selected for the scholarship of HAVI Program.
The HAVI (Humanities and AI Virtual Institute) program is operated by the Schmidt Sciences Foundation to support new research developments through the integration of the humanities and AI technology. For more details, please refer to the information below.
▼Project Title
Augmenting Retrieval for Eurasian Languages
▼Overview
This project explores how AI can reveal the dynamic networks (transmission, transformation, controversy, etc.) in the transmission of texts across the Eurasian continent at scale, while preserving linguistic and historical specificity. Targeting languages such as Greek, Latin, Arabic, Hebrew, Armenian, Sanskrit, Classical Chinese, and Tibetan, we will undertake tasks including pre-training multilingual foundation models and constructing a Graph-RAG pipeline to track intertextual relationships.
▼Official Announcement
https://www.schmidtsciences.