Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit. Detecting Latin Allusions to Ancient Greek Literature [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Intertextual allusions hold a pivotal role in Classical Philology, with Latin authors frequently referencing Ancient Greek texts. Until now, the automatic identification of these intertextual references has been constrained to monolingual approaches, seeking parallels solely within Latin or Greek texts.
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Eye Movement Evidence for Context-Sensitive Derivation of Scalar Inferences
Collabra: Psychology, 2018 A scalar expression like some can optionally have an enriched interpretation (approximately meaning “some, but not all”) depending on the context in which it appears.
Stephen Politzer-Ahles +1 more
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The Making of Abstraction. Some Hypotheses on Money, Language, and Modern Literature
Revista Guillermo de Ockham, 2022 The question I have tried to answer is whether there is such a thing as linguistic alienation and what its consequences are for Marxist literary studies and for understanding the so-called "superstructure" in general.
Roberto Gerace
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Projective and other locative PPs in Greek
Glossa, 2022 The distinction between projective and non-projective locative prepositions that has been proposed in the semantic literature (Zwarts & Winter 2000) is reflected in the syntax and morphology of Greek spatial expressions.
Athanasios Michail Ramadanidis
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"In order that" -- a data driven study of symptoms and causes of obsolescence [PDF]
2021, Linguistics Vanguard 7 (1), 20200092: 1-11The paper is an empirical case study of grammatical obsolescence in progress. The main studied variable is the purpose subordinator in order that, which is shown to be steadily decreasing in the frequency of use starting from the beginning of the twentieth century.
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A Global Lexical Database (GLED) for Computational Historical Linguistics
Journal of Open Humanities Data, 2023 This work presents a lexical database with cognate annotation and phonological alignment for over 6,500 documented language varieties. The database includes per-family and global phylogenetic resources and offers a pre-computed global tree for language ...
Tiago Tresoldi
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Representing provenance and track changes of cultural heritage metadata in RDF: a survey of existing approaches [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 In the realm of Digital Humanities, the management of cultural heritage metadata is pivotal for ensuring data trustworthiness. Provenance information - contextual metadata detailing the origin and history of data - plays a crucial role in this process.
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Metaphorical conceptualization of Happiness and Anger in the Amharic azmari Lyrics
Cogent Arts & HumanitiesThis paper examines the Metaphorical Conceptualizations of Happiness and Anger in the Amharic minstrels (the Amharic equivalent is azmari, hereafter I will use azmari for singular and azmariwotʃ for plural) Lyrics.
Yibekal Abate, Derib Ado
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Exploring Large Language Models for Classical Philology [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Recent advances in NLP have led to the creation of powerful language models for many languages including Ancient Greek and Latin. While prior work on Classical languages unanimously uses BERT, in this work we create four language models for Ancient Greek that vary along two dimensions to study their versatility for tasks of interest for Classical ...
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Computer-Aided Modelling of the Bilingual Word Indices to the Ninth-Century Uchitel'noe evangelie [PDF]
Proceedings of 1st International Workshop on Digital Platforms and
Resources for Access to Literary Heritage (DIPRAL), pp. 19-30, 2022, 2022 The development of bilingual dictionaries to medieval translations presents diverse difficulties. These result from two types of philological circumstances: a) the asymmetry between the source language and the target language; and b) the varying available sources of both the original and translated texts.
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