From Inscriptions to Lexica and Back: A Platform for Editing and Linking the Languages of Ancient Italy
Valeria Quochi, Andrea Bellandi, Fahad Khan, Michele Mallia, Francesca Murano, Silvia Piccini, Luca Rigobianco, Alessandro Tommasi, Cesare Zavattari
Abstract
Available language technology is hardly applicable to scarcely attested ancient languages, yet their digital semantic representation, though challenging, is an asset for the purpose of sharing and preserving existing cultural knowledge. In the context of a project on the languages and cultures of ancient Italy, we took up this challenge. The paper thus describes the development of a user friendly web platform, EpiLexO, for the creation and editing of an integrated system of language resources for ancient fragmentary languages centered on the lexicon, in compliance with current digital humanities and Linked Open Data principles. EpiLexo allows for the editing of lexica with all relevant cross-references: for their linking to their testimonies, as well as to bibliographic information and other (external) resources and common vocabularies. The focus of the current implementation is on the languages of ancient Italy, in particular Oscan, Faliscan, Celtic and Venetic; however, the technological solutions are designed to be general enough to be potentially applicable to different scenarios.- Anthology ID:
- 2022.lt4hala-1.9
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages
- Month:
- June
- Year:
- 2022
- Address:
- Marseille, France
- Editors:
- Rachele Sprugnoli, Marco Passarotti
- Venue:
- LT4HALA
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association
- Note:
- Pages:
- 59–67
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2022.lt4hala-1.9
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Valeria Quochi, Andrea Bellandi, Fahad Khan, Michele Mallia, Francesca Murano, Silvia Piccini, Luca Rigobianco, Alessandro Tommasi, and Cesare Zavattari. 2022. From Inscriptions to Lexica and Back: A Platform for Editing and Linking the Languages of Ancient Italy. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages, pages 59–67, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
- Cite (Informal):
- From Inscriptions to Lexica and Back: A Platform for Editing and Linking the Languages of Ancient Italy (Quochi et al., LT4HALA 2022)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl-2023-videos/2022.lt4hala-1.9.pdf