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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.

The resources in support of Latin scholars created under the scientific direction of Paolo Mastandrea are numerous; the undertaking of Musisque Deoque, which aims at equipping the entire corpus of ancient Latin poetry with “significant variants”, is the most emblematic effort, open to further developments. Looking at the general history of these projects, we try to trace the future path of the “Musisque Deoque galaxy” within Open Science.

The term pro-ana (pro-anorexia) means the spread of restrictive eating behaviors and anorectic advices in virtual spaces written by teenagers. The purpose of this pilot study consists in a qualitative and quantitative analysis of foods contained in a linguistic corpus made up of users' comments on pro-ana websites.The corpus of pro-ana websites was analyzed through the T2K tool based on word-frequency processing.The results show conversations regarding beverages, products of vegetable origin (fruit, vegetables) and low-calorie foods, with a tendency to limit the fear linked to the choice of high-calorie foods through reassuring and reconcilable language labels ("light", "sugar free").These findings specify the food semantics on pro-ana websites associated to an anorectic vocabulary with restrictive diets. The results could be used to characterize the most common food as risk factors within the eating disorders framework.

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.

The authors present the outcomes of an educational experimentation that took place in the academic year 2018-2019 at the degree course in Informatica Umanistica at the University of Pisa. The first objective of the project concerned the digitization of a corpus of postcards from the period of the First World War owned by the ethnographic Museum of La Spezia "G. Podenzana". The aims of the work are not only the historical study of the corpus, but also the organization of a public history project with the Museum.

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.

Questo contributo illustra metodi e strumenti per studiare il cambiamento diacronico degli interessi di ricerca della comunità TEI grazie all'uso di metodi di estrazione automatica della terminologia da corpora di dominio.

Nelle ricerche umanistiche l'impiego dell'elaboratore elettronico prende il via nella seconda metà del ventesimo secolo favorendo l'uso di metodi statistici sia nello studio di opere letterarie che nello studio delle lingue, promuovendo un sodalizio interdisciplinare che è arrivato ai giorni nostri senza interruzione. In questo contributo tentiamo di fissare alcuni momenti salienti del processo che ha visto la nascita comune della Linguistica Computazionale e delle Digital Humanities nonché i loro alterni allontanamenti e ricongiungimenti.

Encoding multilingual variant readings is time-consuming and error-prone. The guidelines provided by the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) ensure data interchange, but the TEI-XML verbosity risks to distract annotators with a traditional background in philological studies from their critical activity. We illustrate how a Domain Specific Language (DSL) facilitates both the manual annotation of the critical apparatus and the data interchange. Our case study is based on the multilingual tradition of the biblical book of Qohelet, which has been annotated through the annotation tool based on DSLs named Euporia.

Il lavoro propone l'analisi e il confronto dei riferimenti bibliografici delle cinque edizioni annuali della Conferenza dell'Associazione per l'Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale (AIUCD) e del primo biennio (2014-2015) della Conferenza Italiana di Linguistica Computazionale (CLiC-it) per misurare la direzione in cui si muove il trend citazionale.. L'analisi muove dal principio di rilevanza della citazione nella trasmissione della conoscenza in un periodo di grandi cambiamenti socioculturali e di importanti evoluzioni nelle modalità di produzione e diffusione dei risultati della ricerca scientifica. Lo scopo dello studio è quello di misurare la gamma delle risorse citate in questa area del sapere mediante l'uso di indicatori volti a comprendere la loro ampiezza, l'estensione temporale, la varietà, le relazioni con il mondo editoriale e i modelli di riferimento. L'osservazione dei risultati consente di classificare i documenti citati, di descriverne le caratteristiche e di valutare eventuali trasformazioni rispetto alle modalità di citazione tradizionali. The paper suggests the analysis of the bibliographic references - enclosed in the proceedings of the Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics - CLICit in 2014-2015 biennium and of five AIUCD Conference editions 2012-2016 . The analysis moves from the principle of relevance of citation in the transmission of knowledge in a period of great socio-cultural changes and important developments in the production and dissemination of the results in the scientific research. The purpose of the study is to measure the range of resources cited in this area of knowledge by the use of indicators aimed in understanding their wideness, the time extension, the variety, the relations with the publishing world and the reference models. The observation of the results allows to classify the cited document, to describe its characteristics and to assess any changes compared to the traditional citation mode.

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.

Il dizionario storico è il luogo d'incontro privilegiato di linguistica e lessicografia e filologia e critica letteraria. Nella prima parte prendiamo in considerazione un caso di studio piuttosto noto, relativo all'espressione "provando e riprovando", per mostrare come perfino i luoghi citati nei dizionari, che sono introdotti con lo scopo di disambiguare i termini in contesto, non siano privi di controversie interpretative. Nella seconda parte, molto più dettagliata e più tecnica, tentiamo di aggiungere ai modelli lessicali e citazionali già esistenti ed aperti soluzioni minime che ci permettano di collegare voci, citazioni e interpretazioni all'interno dell'universo dei Linked Open Data.

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.

Cronaca del quinto convegno annuale dell'Associazione di Informatica Umanistica e Cultura Digitale (AIUCD), che si è svolto dal 7 al 9 settembre 2016 presso l'Aula Magna di Ca' Dolfin dell'Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia e ha avuto per tema: "Edizioni digitali: rappresentazione, interoperabilità, analisi del testo e infrastrutture".