Summer2020 Session 10

Sunoikisis Digital Classics, Summer 2020

Session 10. Cylleneus: Next-gen corpus search for ancient languages

Thursday June 11, 17:00-18:15 CEST

Convenors: William Michael Short (University of Exeter)

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/9vxfm-TnMeM

Slides

Session outline

This seminar introduces Cylleneus, an open-source extensible software library written in Python that implements advanced search functionality for corpora of ancient languages. Using Cylleneus, texts in Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin can be queried on the basis of their semantic and morpho-syntactic properties. This means that, for the first time, texts can be searched by the meanings of words as well as by the kinds of grammatical constructions they occur in. For its semantic capabilities, Cylleneus takes advantage of the Sanskrit WordNet, Ancient Greek WordNet, and Latin WordNet, which are robust lexico-semantic databases under development by an international consortium of scholars at the University of Exeter, the University of Pavia, the Center for Hellenic Studies, and elsewhere. Cylleneus delivers a powerful, flexible, and easily extensible system for constructing queries and can be integrated with any kind of structured or plain-text corpus.

Reference materials

https://github.com/cylleneus/cylleneus https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/cylleneus/cylleneus/master?filepath=notebooks/quick_search.ipynb

Seminar readings

Further reading

Exercise