Orbilius
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Creator
- Daniele Lucchini
Description
Taken from project About page (Accessed 2024-12-8):
Orbilius is a tool to search for a word, as a token and its concordances, in a corpus of modern Latin texts. What Orbilius basically does is give for any searched word a glossary translation, if present, and a list of concordances. With the opportunity to consult directly the texts in which they occur.
All you have to do is type or paste your word in the text box, chose the work and translation language from the drop-down list, and press 'Submit'. Orbilius will automatically give the above data for the word.
The corpus is in fieri. At present it groups articles from the online newspaper Ephemeris and from the Latin versions of the Vatican web site and Wikipedia, counting more than 5 millions tokens in about 6000 articles. Last update: December 2017.
The glossaries too are in fieri. Actually Orbilius is progressively learning while you use it: when you ask Orbilius for a word, it crawls the web to search its translation and implements its glossaries in an almost unsupervised way. The model for that is the WordNet-WSD approach.