Marianna Napolitano
2025
DIACU: A dataset for the DIAchronic analysis of Church Slavonic
Maria Cassese
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Giovanni Puccetti
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Marianna Napolitano
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Andrea Esuli
Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Slavic Natural Language Processing (Slavic NLP 2025)
The Church Slavonic language has evolved over time without being formalized into a precise grammar. Therefore, there is currently no clearly outlined history of this language tracing its evolution. However, in recent years, there has been a greater effort to digitize these resources, partly motivated by increased sensitivity with respect to the need to preserve multilingual knowledge. To exploit them, we propose DIACU (DIAchronic Analysis of Church Slavonic), a comprehensive collection of several existing corpora in Church Slavonic. In this work, we thoroughly describe the collection of this novel dataset and test its effectiveness as a training set for attributing Slavonic texts to specific periods. The dataset and the code of the experiments is available at https://github.com/MariaCassese/DIACU.