LiLa: Linking Latin

Building a Knowledge Base of Linguistic Resources for Latin

LiLa contributions at LREC-COLING

Two contributions, a paper and a poster, have been accepted for presentation at the prestigious LREC–COLING 2024 – The 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation. (https://lrec-coling-2024.org/) Paper: “Representing Compounding with OntoLex. An Evaluation of Vocabularies for Word Formation Resources” by Elena Benzoni, Matteo Pellegrini, Francesco Dedè and Marco Passarotti Poster: …

CLaSSES Corpus in LiLa

The Corpus for Latin Sociolinguistic Studies on Epigraphic textS (CLaSSES) is now connected to LiLa! CLaSSES (Corpus for Latin Sociolinguistic Studies on Epigraphic textS) is a digital resource which gathers non-literary Latin texts (inscriptions, writing tablets, letters) of different periods and provinces of the Roman Empire. Each text is tagged with linguistic and extra-linguistic information that …

Dante’s Latin Loanwords Online Now!

We just linked a glossary of Dante’s Latin loanwords to our Knowledge Base! The Glossary of Latin loanwords from the Italian works of Dante Alighieri was developed by Giulia Pedonese during her PhD course in Italian linguistics and collects 765 Italian words which are Latin loanwords attested in the four Italian works by XIIIth Century …

LiLa at KONVENS, Potsdam (12-15 September)

Our intern Ginevra Martinelli will be at KONVENS (Konferenz zur Verarbeitung natürlicher Sprache/Conference on Natural Language Processing – https://konvens2022.uni-potsdam.de/) to present a poster titled “Linking the Bilingual Latin-English Dictionary Lewis & Short to the LiLa Knowledge Base” illustrating what she worked on during her time at LiLa. The poster is authored by herself, Ginevra Martinelli …

LiLa at the 4th Summer Datathon on Linguistic Linked Open Data (SD-LLOD-22)

The 4th Summer Datathon on Linguistic Linked Open Data (SD-LLOD-22) is sponsored and organised by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) through NexusLinguarum, the “European network for Web-centred linguistic data science” COST Action (CA18209, https://nexuslinguarum.eu/) and funded by the European Union, features a rich 5-day programme among which: an introduction to LiLa (in collaboration …