LiLa: Linking Latin

Building a Knowledge Base of Linguistic Resources for Latin

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First LiLa Workshop, June 2019

This workshop, entitled Linguistic Resources and NLP Tools for Latin, brings together over twenty scholars from around the world responsible for the creation of tools and resources for Latin with a view to understanding their present state of development and discussing their potential integration in the LiLa Knowledge Base. The list of confirmed speakers is as follows:

  1. Bridget Almas (Alpheios), Tufts University (USA)
  2. Marjorie Burghart (Verba, COL, Enigma), Université de Lyon (France)
  3. Patrick Burns (CLTK), University of Texas at Austin (USA)
  4. Giuseppe Celano (Ancient Greek and Latin Dependency Treebank), Universität Leipzig (Germany)
  5. Tom Gheldof (Trismegistos), Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium)
  6. Berta Gonzalez Saavedra (REGLA), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain)
  7. Dag Haug (PROIEL), University of Oslo (Norway)
  8. Gerhard Heyer (eAqua), Universität Leipzig (Germany)
  9. Sam Huskey (Digital Latin Library), University of Oklahoma (USA) [video-conference]
  10. Neven Jovanovic (CroALa), University of Zagreb (Croatia)
  11. Timo Korkiakangas (Late Latin Charter Treebank), University of Helsinki (Finland)
  12. Maurizio Lana, Alice Borgna and Nadia Rosso (digilibLT), Università del Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli (Italy)
  13. Dominique Longrée (LASLA), Université de Liège (Belgium)
  14. Paolo Mastandrea (Musisque Deoque), Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia (Italy)
  15. Alexander Mehler and Tim Geelhaar (Computational Historical Semantics), Goethe-Universität Frankfurt (Germany)
  16. Silvia Orlandi (EAGLE), Università Roma La Sapienza (Italy)
  17. Michael Piotrowski, Université de Lausanne (Switzerland)
  18. Philipp Roelli (Corpus Corporum), University of Zurich (Switzerland) and Jan Ctibor (Corpus Corporum), Charles University (Czech Republic)
  19. William Michael Short (Latin WordNet 2.0), University of Exeter (UK)
  20. Uwe Springmann (LatMor), Universität Würzburg (Germany)
  21. Francesco Stella (ALIM), Università degli Studi di Siena (Italy)
  22. James Tauber (Open Greek and Latin & Scaife Digital Library), Eldarion (USA)
  23. Julien Théry (Aposcripta Database), Université de Lyon (France)
  24. Philippe Verkerk and Yves Ouvrard (Collatinus), Université de Lille (France)
  25. LiLa Team

The programme will be announced in the coming weeks. The workshop is free of charge and is open to all. For more information about the event and to register, please visit our Events page. Registration closes on 30th April 2019.

We look forward to welcoming you in Milan!