Abstract
This paper aims to apply a corpus-driven approach to Dante Alighieri’s Latin works using UDante, a treebank based on Dante Search and part of the Universal Dependencies project. We present a method based on the notion of barycentre applied to a dependency tree as a way to calculate the “syntactic balance” of a sentence. Its application to Dante’s Latin works shows its potential in analysing the style of an author, and contributes to the interpretation of the supprema constructio mentioned in DVE II vi 7 as a well balanced syntactic pattern modeled on Latin literary writing.- Anthology ID:
- 2022.lt4hala-1.8
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages
- Month:
- June
- Year:
- 2022
- Address:
- Marseille, France
- Venue:
- LT4HALA
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association
- Note:
- Pages:
- 51–58
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2022.lt4hala-1.8
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Flavio Massimiliano Cecchini and Giulia Pedonese. 2022. A Treebank-based Approach to the Supprema Constructio in Dante’s Latin Works. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages, pages 51–58, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
- Cite (Informal):
- A Treebank-based Approach to the Supprema Constructio in Dante’s Latin Works (Cecchini & Pedonese, LT4HALA 2022)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/paclic-22-ingestion/2022.lt4hala-1.8.pdf
- Code
- stormur/dantesuppremaconstructio