Classical studies · Paris

Jules Deret

Teacher of classics

I teach Latin and Ancient Greek in Paris, both at secondary school and through private lessons. I also work in digital humanities.

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Portrait of Jules Deret
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About

I studied classics at Sorbonne Université, following earlier studies at Sciences Po Bordeaux. Along the way, I spent a year in Rome at the Accademia Vivarium Novum and another in South Africa.

Today, I teach classics at a French secondary school. I am especially interested in how people come to understand an ancient language: through texts, reading and practice, rather than translation alone.

Education

2020 – 2024
Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Classics

Sorbonne Université, Paris

2015 – 2020
2018 – 2019
Year abroad — Accademia Vivarium Novum

Rome, Italy

2016 – 2017
International exchange

University of the Free State, South Africa

Research

THIVLVC

“THIVLVC: Retrieval Augmented Dependency Parsing for Latin”

Luc Pommeret, Thibault Wagret and Jules Deret.

LT4HALA 2026 / EvaLatin 2026, LREC 2026, Palma de Mallorca, 11 May 2026, pp. 219–225.

In 2026, I published this work with Luc Pommeret and Thibault Wagret. We asked whether previously annotated Latin sentences could help a language model correct an initial syntactic analysis. This is the principle behind THIVLVC.

Results and resources

In the EvaLatin 2026 evaluation, THIVLVC_2 achieved the best results on the poetry corpus and the best LAS without subtypes on the prose corpus. Compared with UDPipe, its CLAS score with subtypes improved by 17 points on poetry and 1.5 points on prose.

We also conducted a double-blind review of 300 disagreements with the reference corpus. Of the 167 unanimous decisions, 53.3% favoured THIVLVC.

Paper DOI HAL arXiv Source code EvaLatin results

Links

A few projects on ancient languages and research.

Duae Linguae

An interactive companion to Familia Romana for learning to read Latin without translating.

Latin Vivant

An active approach to learning Latin through reading, listening, writing and speaking.

Le Grec Vivant

Small-group online Ancient Greek lessons using an active approach to reading Homer and Plato.

Greek Lemmatisation

A tool for automatically lemmatising Greek texts, in the spirit of Eulexis. Its team trained and annotated the model themselves.

Private lessons

I offer private Latin and Ancient Greek lessons in Paris, whether you are starting out, revisiting the basics, preparing for an exam or simply looking to read texts more closely. The content and pace are tailored to each person's level and goals.

To ask about availability, the easiest way is to email me.

Get in touch

Contact

deret.jules@gmail.com

Paris 20th arrondissement, France