LiLa: Linking Latin

Building a Knowledge Base of Linguistic Resources for Latin

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Invited talk, Miami

Symposium: Computer-Assisted Text Analysis for Resource-Scarce Literatures
Date: 24th-25th April 2019
Location: Miami, Florida

  • Greta Franzini and Marco Passarotti. LiLa (Linking Latin): Piecing together a seemingly under-resourced language.
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DH 2019 submission accepted

Conference: Digital Humanities Conference (DH2019)
Dates: 9th-12th July 2019
Location: Utrecht, Netherlands

  • Marco Passarotti, Flavio M. Cecchini, Greta Franzini, Eleonora Litta, Francesco Mambrini, Paolo Ruffolo. LiLa: Linking Latin – Building a Knowledge Base of Linguistic Resources for Latin.
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First LiLa Workshop, June 2019

The first LiLa workshop, entitled Linguistic Resources and NLP Tools for Latin, will take place at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan on 3rd-4th June 2019. This workshop brings together over twenty scholars from around the world responsible for the creation of linguistic 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.

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DeriMo 2019 First Call for Papers

The Second International Workshop on Resources and Tools for Derivational Morphology (DeriMo 2019) will be held in Prague, Czech Republic, on September 19 and 20, 2019, at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Charles University. The Workshop is co-chaired by Magda Ševčíková and Zdeněk Žabokrtský from ÚFAL, Charles University, and by LiLa’s very own Eleonora Litta and Marco Passarotti.

Extract of the IT-TB Latin treebank annotated according to UD standards

New UD conversion of the Index Thomisticus Treebank

On 15th November Universal Dependencies (UD) released version 2.3 of its set of annotated treebanks. Thanks to the work of our very own Flavio M. Cecchini and Marco C. Passarotti, and of our Czech colleague Dan Zeman (Prague), UD now includes a new and improved conversion of the Index Thomisticus Treebank (IT-TB). 🤠