Summer2019 Session11

Sunoikisis Digital Classics, Summer 2019

Session 11. From Annotated Text to Vocabulary Exercises

Thursday June 13, 17:00 - 18:15 CEST

Convenors: Neven Jovanović and the Sunoikisis Summer 2019 Class of the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1b5xsNKWBg

Slides: in our Github repository (PDF)

Session outline

Starting from a set of morphologically annotated and lemmatized short texts in Greek (from a Greek reader prepared by members of the Department of Classical Philology, University of Zagreb), we will explain and demonstrate how to use BaseX and XQuery to produce Anki spaced repetition vocabulary exercises.

We will use the Dickinson College Core Vocabulary list to identify basic vocabulary, that is, the words most frequent in ancient Greek texts usually read today.

1. Introduction
2. Materials, methods, and tools
3. Demonstration (results)
4. Discussion

Seminar readings

• Github repository with scripts and materials: sunoikisis2019zg-eklogai

Further reading

• Anki 2.1 User Manual
• Arethusa Treebank Editor
• BaseX documentation
• Dickinson College Core Vocabulary
• Melton, J., Buxton, S. (2006). Querying XML : XQuery, XPath, and SQL/XML in context. Amsterdam [etc.]: Margan Kaufmann. ISBN: 1558607110 9781558607118
• Walmsley, P. (2007). Xquery - search across a variety of XML data.. O'Reilly. ISBN: 978-0-596-00634-1

Essay title

• Prepare a brief report about the exercises (see below)

Exercise

• Install BaseX and Anki, clone our Github repository, replicate the databases, run the scripts, and, where appropriate, import results into Anki
• Experiment with learning vocabulary with Anki for a week, doing a session every day