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CTLO – Partners

Under the scholarly guidance of its founding father Prof. Paul Tombeur and its current academic director Prof. Toon Van Hal (KU Leuven), the CTLO is always looking for collaborations in various forms. One technically-oriented ongoing collaboration with Mike Kestemont, Enrique Manjavacas (both UAntwerpen), Nicolas De Maeyer and Lisa Devriese (both KU Leuven) seeks to refine the possibilities of text comparison and source identification.

From October 2021 until September 2025, Brepols/CTLO and KU Leuven have hosted a collaborative academic-industrial “Baekeland” project, co-funded by VLAIO (“Flanders Innovation & Entrepreneurship”, grant no. HBC.2021.0210), allowing PhD researcher Wouter Mercelis to enrich and improve the BREPOLiS Latin platform by implementing Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing. Some of the publications that have resulted from this project are the following:

  • Mercelis, W., Keersmaekers, A. (2022). An ELECTRA Model for Latin Token Tagging Tasks. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages (pp. 189–192). European Language Resources Association. [available at https://aclanthology.org/2022.lt4hala-1.30/]
  • Mercelis, W. (2024). KU Leuven / Brepols-CTLO at EvaLatin 2024: Span Extraction Approaches for Latin Dependency Parsing. In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages (LT4HALA) @ LREC-COLING-2024 (pp. 203–206). European Language Resources Association / International Committee on Computational Linguistics. [available at https://aclanthology.org/volumes/2024.lt4hala-1/%5D

In September and October 2024, the CTLO has welcomed PD Dr. Christa Müller-Kessler (Jena – Regensburg) as a LECTIO & Brepols Visiting Fellow, to contribute to the Clavis Clavium database with a focus on sources in Syriac and Christian Palestinian Aramaic. Moreover, Brepols and its CTLO are an Associated Partner in the EU-funded MSCA Doctoral Network “The Mechanics of Canon Formation and the Transmission of Knowledge from Greco-Roman Antiquity” (MECANO, grant agreement no. 101120349), coordinated by LECTIO at KU Leuven, in the framework of which the CTLO has accommodated the industrial secondments (internships) for two PhD researchers, Kendall Bitner and Timo Zarakovitis, in the summer of 2025.

For the integration of texts into its databases and the verification of metatextual information, the CTLO is grateful for its past and ongoing cooperations with academic institutions, journals, and publishers, such as the Commissio Leonina, the Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum (CSEL), Les Éditions du Cerf, the Frati Editori di Quaracchi (Fondazione Collegio San Bonaventura), the Institut d’Études Augustiniennes (Paris), the Monumenta Germaniae Historica, the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (Toronto), Revue Bénédictine, Sacris Erudiri, the Société des Bollandistes, Sources Chrétiennes (Lyon), the Württembergische Bibelgesellschaft, Leuven University Press, Oxford University Press, Peeters Publishers (Leuven), Walter de Gruyter, and many others.