A Linked Coptic Dictionary Online
Frank Feder, Maxim Kupreyev, Emma Manning, Caroline T. Schroeder, Amir Zeldes
Abstract
We describe a new project publishing a freely available online dictionary for Coptic. The dictionary encompasses comprehensive cross-referencing mechanisms, including linking entries to an online scanned edition of Crum’s Coptic Dictionary, internal cross-references and etymological information, translated searchable definitions in English, French and German, and linked corpus data which provides frequencies and corpus look-up for headwords and multiword expressions. Headwords are available for linking in external projects using a REST API. We describe the challenges in encoding our dictionary using TEI XML and implementing linking mechanisms to construct a Web interface querying frequency information, which draw on NLP tools to recognize inflected forms in context. We evaluate our dictionary’s coverage using digital corpora of Coptic available online.- Anthology ID:
- W18-4502
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Second Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature
- Month:
- August
- Year:
- 2018
- Address:
- Santa Fe, New Mexico
- Editors:
- Beatrice Alex, Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Anna Feldman, Anna Kazantseva, Nils Reiter, Stan Szpakowicz
- Venue:
- LaTeCH
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 12–21
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/W18-4502
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Frank Feder, Maxim Kupreyev, Emma Manning, Caroline T. Schroeder, and Amir Zeldes. 2018. A Linked Coptic Dictionary Online. In Proceedings of the Second Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature, pages 12–21, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- A Linked Coptic Dictionary Online (Feder et al., LaTeCH 2018)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl-2023-videos/W18-4502.pdf