Ancient Latin grammarians on suppletion

Detecting Style in Ancient Latin

Background Stylometry is a field that uses statistical and computational techniques to study the style of authors. Stylometry is used to address questions authenticity, authorship, and chronologies, among other questions. Most famously, Mosteller and Wallace used statistical techniques to determine the disputed authorship of the Federalist papers.1 More recently in 2015, stylometric techniques ...

Latin Language and Latin Culture from ancient to modern times

The Ancient Greek and Latin Dependency Treebanks

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...

Porting an Ancient Greek and Latin Treebank

We have recently converted a dependency treebank, consisting of ancient Greek and Latin texts, from one annotation scheme to another that was independently designed. This paper makes two observations about this conversion process. First, we show that, despite significant surface differences between the two treebanks, a number of straightforward transformation rules yield a substantial level of ...

A Toolchain for Grammarians

We present a chain of tools used by grammarians and computer scientists to develop grammatical and lexical resources from linguistic knowledge, for various natural languages. The developed resources are intended to be used in Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems.