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CophiEditor is a Digital Scholarly Editing Web platform based on Domain Specific Languages (DSL-based DSE). We are developing this platform in the context of the GreekSchools-885222 ERC project in which it is being used for the constitutio textus of Philodemus of Gadara’s Arrangement of the Philosophers. The digital papyrological edition of these texts is challenging in many ways, as most of the Herculaneum papyri are highly fragmentary because they are carbonized and damaged. One of the main goals of the CophiEditor is to provide a full-fledged collaborative environment in order to support the scholar's editorial work. In this poster we show how the progress of CophiEditor eases the collaboration between scholars and the role played by the Web Annotation Data Model (WADM) for data representation and interchange.

EuporiaRAGT is one of the pilot projects that adopt the Euporia system as a digital support to an historico-anthropological research on the form and function of rituals in the texts of ancient Greek tragedy. This paper describes the bottom-up approach adopted in the project: During the annotation stage, performed with a Domain Specific Language designed with a usercentred approach, the domain expert can annotate ritual and religious phenomena, with the possibility of registering different textual and interpretive variants; the design of a search engine, in a second phase of the work, allows the database to be tested and reorganized. Finally, the construction of an ontology allows to structure the tags, in order to perform complex queries on the database.

This paper describes a project in the domain of Digital Epigraphy, named Cretan Institutional Inscriptions developed at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice. The project is supported by CLARIN-IT as part of the actions addressed to initiatives, projects and events in the field of Humanities and Social Sciences. The main goal is to make the project visible through CLARIN channels with the hope that it will be a forerunner for other digital epigraphy projects in CLARIN. The article illustrates also the dockerization process applied to the Cretan Institutional Inscriptions project, currently hosted on the CLARIN-IT servers.

We introduce a formal approach to document and text analysis. The method proposed herein results in a mathematical and physical model/framework which can formalize different challenges in research fields such as computational linguistics, digital philology, and software engineering, principally if applied to document and text analysis. We examine texts and documents from an evolutionary perspective, where both corruption and correction are involved. We describe document evolution via fiber bundles formalism.

This paper aims at showing how integrating the Archive of the Italian Latinity of the Middle Ages (ALIM) into the ILC4CLARIN repository can provide mutual benefits. Making ALIM available to a large community of scholars and researchers, on the one side, represents the first step to reduce the lack of resources for Medieval Latin in CLARIN and, on the other side, constitutes an unprecedented contribution to not only linguistic investigations, but also to the studies of the culture and science at the basis of the Western European society. The paper describes the adopted approach aiming to keep intact the structure of the archive and its metadata, which are both accurately mirrored into the ILC4CLARIN repository in order to maintain existing access practices of the users. This structure can be found in exactly the same state within the CLARIN VLO. Finally, the paper illustrates the advantages of experimenting with some ALIM data, once introduced within the CLARIN Language Resource Switchboard service: first results are shown from the analysis of some texts with the UDPipe tool suite and the distant reading tool Voyant.

Commerce was an important literary review founded in Paris by Princess Margherita Caetani, Prince Roffredo Cae-tani's wife. Born in America, she was polyglot and maecenas. Between 1924 and 1932 she surrounded herself with three prestigious collaborators: Paul Valery, Leon-Paul Fargue, Valery Larbaud. The review promoted the translation of World and European literature in French, translating some of the most important authors like Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Pirandello, Ungaretti, Saint-John Perse, Rilke, Hofmannsthal. The aim of this project is to promote by digitizing the dissemination of the review, to develop studies and research concerning the Caetani family's cultural activities in Europe. All the volumes of the literary review Commerce have been scanned, acquired by OCR and encoded in TEI-XML. The cultural value of the operation is discussed and the work-flow to create the digital textual corpus is described in detail.

This contribution is focused on the role of the digital scholarly editor in the continuous process of analysis, development and evaluation of libraries of components for cooperative philology.

This paper documents our campaign to undertake the large-scale optical character recognition of ancient, or polytonic, Greek. Building upon the Gamera OCR engine and developing a suite of post-processing tools, including automatic spellcheck, we processed 1,200 volumes comprising 329,002,271 Greek words. A sample of 10 pages is studied in detail; they demonstrate the degree to which each step of post-processing improved the results, and with which source documents. These pages attain an average character accuracy of about 96%. These results will provide a basis for further improvements, including the training of other open-source OCR engines.

In this paper we present ongoing research carried out at the Institute for Computational Linguistics "A. Zampolli" (ILC) in Pisa. The institute has been active since many years in the field of Digital Humanities providing resources, tools and solutions to address issues of the to digital humanists. Starting from those previous initiatives, we show how to re-engineer them as Web Services in order to make connections between lexicons, semantic resources and a fine grained text management. Linked Open Data is chosen as the paradigm used to link the different resources as well as the modality of data presentation.

Euporia is an annotation system developed with a user-centred approach for the study of ritual and religion in ancient Greek tragedy. Euporia adopts a domain specific language (DSL) and a lightweight web user interface in order to offer digital support to an anthropological study of ancient Greek tragedy that compares ritual as it is performed or described in Greek tragedy with ancient ritual as it can be reconstructed from literary, archaeological, and epigraphic sources. The case study discussed in this paper (Aesch. Ag. 67–71) shows one of the main features of Euporia: the ability to annotate different readings and different interpretations of the text and their consequences in the reconstruction of ancient Greek ritual.

In this article we illustrate a work in progress related to the design of a library of software components devoted to editing, processing, and visualizing TEI-annotated documents in the domain of philological studies, in particular in the subdomain of collaborative philology, which concerns the social activity of scholars focused on shared philological tasks. We discuss the technologies related to XML markup languages and the processing of marked-up documents. We describe the method used to design and implement the TeiCoPhiLib, outlining the design patterns as well as discussing general benefits of the overall architecture. Finally, we present case studies in which some components of our library currently implemented in Java have been used.

Starting from previous initiatives of the CoPhiLab, we show how they can be reinterpreted as Web Services, especially when they become part of a wider scenario: Web Services are used to make connections between lexicons, semantic resources and a fine grained text management. Linked Open Data is chosen to be the paradigm used to link the dierent resources, but also as the modality of data presentation.

International audience; We discuss a method to enhance the accuracy of a subset of the Ancient Greek WordNet based on the Homeric lexicon and the related conceptual network, by using multilingual semantic spaces built from aligned corpora. Italiano. Esponiamo un metodo per migliorare l'accuratezza di un sottoinsieme dell' Ancient Greek WordNet, basato sul lessico Omerico e sulla relativa rete concettuale, attraverso l'uso di spazi semantici plurilingui costruiti su corpora paralleli allineati.

This paper describes the process of creation and review of a new lexico-semantic resource for the classical studies: AncientGreekWord- Net. The candidate sets of synonyms (synsets) are extracted from Greek-English dictionaries, on the assumption that Greek words translated by the same English word or phrase have a high probability of being synonyms or at least semantically closely related. The process of validation and the web interface developed to edit and query the resource are described in detail. The lexical coverage of Ancient Greek WordNet is illustrated and the accuracy is evaluated. Finally, scenarios for exploiting the resource are discussed.

This paper aims at illustrating some tools to assist the manual annotation of themes and motifs in literary and epigraphic epigrams for the PRIN 2010/2011 Memorata Poetis Project.

In this paper we propose a model, called lemonDIA, for representing lexical semantic change using the lemon framework and based on the ontological notion of the perdurant. Namely we extend the notion of sense in lemon by adding a temporal dimension and then define a class of perdurant entities that represents a shift in meaning of a word and which contains different related senses. We start by discussing the general problem of semantic shift and the utility of being able to easily access and represent such information in diachronic lexical resources. We then describe our model and illustrate it with examples.

This report illustrates the activities of Federico Boschetti, researcher at the ILC-CNR of Pisa, Italy, during the visit at the Perseus Project (Dec. 2012 Jun. 2013), aimed at the development of methods and tools for the localization in Italian of digital resources for the study of classics. After a short introduction that contextualizes the visit, the lines of investigation and development are described: a) the collaborative multilingual proofreader, b) the Ancient Greek WordNet linked to the Italian WordNets and c) the alignment of original texts to the Italian translations. The conclusion discusses the relations among the products of these activities.

This article discusses methodological aspects of the Greek into Arabic Web Application related to the annotation system. Collaborative environments for the philological studies manage multiple versions both of the reference edition with digital variants and of linguistic and exegetical annotations. The system must verify and maintain the consistency of interrelated information, which can change asynchronously. Strategies to align different versions of texts and annotations, in order to update the internal references and notify the users to verify the content consistency, are illustrated. Structural aspects that involve the granularity and overlapping of annotations are discussed, taking into account also that linguistic annotations automatically generated by morphological parsers can be the basis for extended comments in natural language. Finally, the article illustrates which features related to the annotation system are yet implemented in the G2A Web Application.

Περιέχει το πλήρες κείμενο This paper describes a work-flow designed to populate a digital library of ancient Greek critical editions with highly accurate OCR scanned text. While the most recently available OCR engines are now able after suitable training to deal with the polytonic Greek fonts used in 19th and 20th century editions, further improvements can also be achieved with postprocessing. In particular, the progressive multiple alignment method applied to different OCR outputs based on the same images is discussed in this paper.

Automatic text analysis methods, such as Topic Modelling, are gaining much attention in Humanities. However, scholars need to have extensive coding skills to use such methods appropriately. The need of having this technical expertise prevents the broad adoption of these methods in Humanities research. In this paper, to help scholars in the Humanities to use Topic Modelling having no or limited coding skills, we introduce MITAO, a web-based tool that allow the definition of a visual workflow which embeds various automatic text analysis operations and allows one to store and share both the workflow and the results of its execution to other researchers, which enables the reproducibility of the analysis. We present an example of an application of use of Topic Modelling with MITAO using a collection of English abstracts of the articles published in "Umanistica Digitale". The results returned by MITAO are shown with dynamic web-based visualizations, which allowed us to have preliminary insights about the evolution of the topics treated over the time in the articles published in "Umanistica Digitale". All the results along with the defined workflows are published and accessible for further studies.

Il progetto “I libri dei Patriarchi 2.0. Un percorso multimediale nella cultura scritta del Friuli medievale” si inserisce nell’ambito di un percorso di ricerca e di approfondimento frutto di un decennio di intensa investigazione scientifica, volto a ricostruire la storia culturale del Friuli medievale valorizzando e rendendo disponibile il patrimonio codicologico antico, di ineguagliabile valenza storica, documentaria e artistica, conservato sia presso prestigiose istituzioni del Friuli Venezia Giulia – quali la Biblioteca Civica Guarneriana di San Daniele del Friuli, la Biblioteca Capitolare e la Biblioteca Patriarcale di Udine, la Biblioteca del Seminario Teologico di Gorizia, la Biblioteca del Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Cividale del Friuli – sia presso alcune fra le principali biblioteche europee ed americane, stimolando e sollecitando un pubblico molto più ampio rispetto a quello rappresentato dalla ristretta cerchia degli studiosi e degli specialisti della materia e che ha come scopo precipuo l’attivazione di dinamiche finalizzate alla promozione del turismo culturale, al coinvolgimento delle scuole e alla divulgazione scientifica, grazie ad un sapiente utilizzo delle tecnologie dell’informazione e ad alcune scelte metodologiche lungimiranti ed innovative.