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The Ancient Greek and Latin Dependency Treebanks

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This paper describes the development, composition, and several uses of the Ancient Greek and Latin Dependency Treebanks, large collections of Classical texts in which the syntactic, morphological and lexical information for each word is made explicit. To date, over 200 individuals from around the world have collaborated to annotate over 350,000 words, including the entirety of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, Sophocles’ Ajax, all of the extant works of Hesiod and Aeschylus, and selections from Caesar, Cicero, Jerome, Ovid, Petronius, Propertius, Sallust and Vergil. While perhaps the most straightforward value of such an annotated corpus for Classical philology is the morphosyntactic searching it makes possible, it also enables a large number of downstream tasks as well, such as inducing the syntactic behavior of lexemes and automatically identifying similar passages between texts.

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Grants from the Alpheios Project (“Building a Greek Treebank”), the National Endowment for the Humanities (PR-50013-08, “The Dynamic Lexicon: Cyberinfrastructure and the Automated Analysis of Historical Languages”), the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (“The CyberEdition Project: Workflow for Textual Data in Cyberinfrastructure”), the Digital Library Initiative Phrase 2 (IIS-9817484) and the National Science Foundation (BCS-0616521) provided support for this work. This research used resources of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, which is supported by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. This paper is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution license.

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Bamman, D., Crane, G. (2011). The Ancient Greek and Latin Dependency Treebanks. In: Sporleder, C., van den Bosch, A., Zervanou, K. (eds) Language Technology for Cultural Heritage. Theory and Applications of Natural Language Processing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20227-8_5

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