@inproceedings{johnson-etal-2021-classical,
    title = "The {C}lassical {L}anguage {T}oolkit: {A}n {NLP} Framework for Pre-Modern Languages",
    author = "Johnson, Kyle P.  and
      Burns, Patrick J.  and
      Stewart, John  and
      Cook, Todd  and
      Besnier, Cl{\'e}ment  and
      Mattingly, William J. B.",
    editor = "Ji, Heng  and
      Park, Jong C.  and
      Xia, Rui",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations",
    month = aug,
    year = "2021",
    address = "Online",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest_wac_2008/2021.acl-demo.3/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2021.acl-demo.3",
    pages = "20--29",
    abstract = "This paper announces version 1.0 of the Classical Language Toolkit (CLTK), an NLP framework for pre-modern languages. The vast majority of NLP, its algorithms and software, is created with assumptions particular to living languages, thus neglecting certain important characteristics of largely non-spoken historical languages. Further, scholars of pre-modern languages often have different goals than those of living-language researchers. To fill this void, the CLTK adapts ideas from several leading NLP frameworks to create a novel software architecture that satisfies the unique needs of pre-modern languages and their researchers. Its centerpiece is a modular processing pipeline that balances the competing demands of algorithmic diversity with pre-configured defaults. The CLTK currently provides pipelines, including models, for almost 20 languages."
}