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To facilitate corpus searches by classicists as well as to reduce data sparsity when training models, we focus on the automatic lemmatization of ancient Greek inscriptions, which have not received as much attention in this sense as literary text data has. We show that existing lemmatizers for ancient Greek, trained on literary data, are not performant on epigraphic data, due to major language differences between the two types of texts. We thus train the first inscription-specific lemmatizer achieving above 80% accuracy, and make both the models and the lemmatized data available to the community. We also provide a detailed error analysis highlighting peculiarities of inscriptions which again highlights the importance of a lemmatizer dedicated to inscriptions.

Translation of- and commentary on ancient Greek inscription

In dit boek worden gangbare spreekwoorden onderzocht door jonge wetenschappers vanuit zeer verschillende disciplines.

Translation of- and commentary on ancient Greek inscription

Vanuit de wetenschap wordt van alle kanten naar het spreekwoord gekeken, de achtergrond belicht én worden er proeven gedaan om de veronderstelde waarheid te toetsen. Deze proeven kunnen ook door de lezer zelf uitgevoerd worden. Op basis van deze proeven trekken we de conclusie welke spreekwoorden nog actueel zijn en welke kunnen worden bijgezet in het mausoleum van achterhaalde waarheden.

This monograph traces the concept of ‘inner purity’ through time. Its main argument is that, when approaching gods and engaging in rituals, a worshipper’s inner stance, i.e. his attitudes and thoughts, rather than just the outward correctness of the ritual performance, are what matters. The correct inner stance of the worshipper was often formulated in Greek literature in terms of purity of mind, soul and thoughts (‘the “purity” of psychic or noetic organs or processes’, p. 5). Crucially, thi...