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Project

Language and Ideas: Towards a New Computational and Corpus-Based Approach to Ancient Greek Semantics and the History of Ideas

Although corpus-based methods are becoming increasingly more common in humanities research, the possibilities for the ancient Greek corpus are still underexplored and hence restricted.

This research project aims at
(1) making decisive progress in the automated semantic annotation of Ancient Greek, by making use of a morphologically and syntactically annotated text corpus consisting of almost 40 million tokens and by applying distributional approaches to Greek diachronic semantics.
(2) exploring its ensuing corpus-based possibilities for researchers comprising not only linguists and classicists, but also historians and philosophers. More specifically, it will focus on corpus-based solutions for ongoing problems in the study of language-related ideas expressed in Ancient Greek.

It is the project’s aim to make the ancient Greek text corpus ‘semantically’ readable, both for humans and for computers.

Date:1 Jan 2021 →  31 Dec 2023
Keywords:ancient Greek corpus, automated semantic annotation
Disciplines:Corpus linguistics, Computational linguistics, Greek language, Cultural history, History and historiography of linguistics