Introduction to Computational Linguistics

Description

This session will give a broad overview computation linguistics as applied to ancient languages, and illustrate some of the methods and techniques through a series of short case studies, by the authors of the projects shown. Dr Ribary will discuss the importance of pre-processing texts, and show a specific case study of semantic clustering and vector representation in Latin text. Dr Sommerschield will talk about the concept of machine learning and discuss her own Pythia project on machine-assisted restoration of damaged Greek inscriptions. Dr Keersmaekers will walk through a pipeline to automatically analyze Greek papyrus texts and their specific problems.

Period	29 Oct 2020
Event title	Sunoikisis Digital Classics series, Fall 2020
Event type	Seminar
Location	London, United KingdomShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International