[dm-l] Backoff Lemmatization for Ancient Greek with the Classical Language Toolkit (seminar)

Institute of Classical Studies Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Friday July 27, 2018 at 16:30 in room 234

*Patrick J. Burns (New York University) *Backoff Lemmatization for Ancient Greek with the Classical Language Toolkit

Automated lemmatization, or retrieval of dictionary headwords, is an active area of research in historical-language text analysis. In this talk, I describe the development of the Backoff Lemmatizer for Ancient Greek with the Classical Language Toolkit (CLTK), an open-source Python platform dedicated to developing natural language processing tools for historical languages. The Backoff Lemmatizer seeks to improve on existing tools by combining training-data-based and rules-based tagging as a lemmatization strategy. By way of conclusion, I discuss a current CLTK development strategy, namely the use of object-oriented architecture as an avenue to digital comparative philology.

Livestream: https://youtu.be/o0neelgQlw8

Full abstract: http://digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2018.html

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