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Perseids

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==Available==

* http://perseids.org/

==Editors==

* Marie-Claire Beaulieu, Director
* Zachary Fletcher, Senior Software Developer

==Description==
From the project website (accessed 2019-06-03):

<blockquote>The '''Perseids Platform''' is a free and open online environment for producing data-driven editions of ancient documents. The Platform allows users to collaborate on editing and publishing documentary materials from the ancient world.</blockquote>

Perseids includes several components:

* Perseids Plaform:
** Translation alignment tool (Alpheios)
** Treebanking annotation tool (Arethusa)
** Text image transcription/alignment tool (Perseids SoSOL)
* Digital Editions
** Birds in Ancient Mythology
** Digital Milliet Project
** [[Ancient Greek and Latin Dependency Treebank]]
** more [https://www.perseids.org/digital-editions Perseids digital editions]
* Libraries and Tools
** Morphology service
** Dictionaries
** Editing tools
** Code Repositories (Open Source via Github)
* [https://sites.tufts.edu/perseids/ Perseids blog]

==See also:==
* [[Perseus Project]]
* [[SoSOL]]
* [[Arethusa]]

==References==
* Almas, Bridget and Beaulieu, Marie-Claire. 2016. "The Perseids Platform: Scholarship for all!" In: Bodard, G & Romanello, M (eds.) ''Digital Classics Outside the Echo-Chamber: Teaching, Knowledge Exchange & Public Engagement'', pp. 171–186. London: Ubiquity Press. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/bat.j.

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Perseus Digital Library

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==Available==

* http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/

==Editors==

* Gregory Crane, editor-in-chief
* Alison Babeu, Digital Librarian
* Marie-Claire Beaulieu, associate editor, [[Perseids]]
* Lisa Cerrato, Managing Editor

==Description==

From the Perseus site (accessed 2005-07-25):

<blockquote>'''Perseus''' is an evolving digital library, engineering interactions through time, space, and language. Our primary goal is to bring a wide range of source materials to as large an audience as possible. We anticipate that greater accessibility to the sources for the study of the humanities will strengthen the quality of questions, lead to new avenues of research, and connect more people through the connection of ideas."

As of 2014, the number of Classics words in ''Perseus'' amounts to 69 million. The library also contains dictionaries, reference works, translations, and commentaries in other modern languages, such as Croatian, German, French and Italian.

In April 2013, the ''Perseus Digital Library'' joined forces with the [[Open Greek and Latin project]] at the University of Leipzig.</blockquote>

From [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perseus_Project Wikipedia] (accessed 2014-12-02):

<blockquote>The Perseus Project (also known as the Perseus Hopper) is a digital library project of Tufts University, which is located in Medford and Somerville, near Boston, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. The project assembles digital collections of humanities resources. It is hosted by the department of Classics. Suffering at times from computer hardware problems, its resources occasionally are unavailable. The project is mirrored by the Max Planck Society in Berlin, Germany, as well as by the University of Chicago.

The project was founded in 1987 to collect and present materials for study of ancient Greece. It has published two CD-ROMs and established the Perseus Digital Library on the World Wide Web in 1995. The project has expanded its original scope. Current collections cover Greco-Roman classics and the English Renaissance. Other materials, such as the papers of Edwin Bolles and the history of Tufts University, have been moved into the Tufts Digital Library.

The editor-in-chief of the project is Gregory Crane, the Tufts Winnick Family Chair in Technology and Entrepreneurship.</blockquote>

==Mirrors and parallel sites==

* [[Perseus under PhiloLogic]] ([http://perseus.uchicago.edu/ Chicago]), contains many of the Perseus Greek and Latin texts, served by a different mechanism for browsing and searching the text, and with somewhat different aims.

==Reviews==

* [https://ride.i-d-e.de/issues/issue-8/perseus/ ''Perseus Digital Library'', Gregory Crane (ed.), 1985-2017.] Reviewed by Sarah Lang in RIDE 8 (2018).

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Treebanking

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==Description==

"'''Treebanking'''" is the shorthand term for grammatically parsing digital texts of Ancient Greek, Latin and a number of other languages, and the creation of annotated morpho-syntactic trees.

===Application in research===

Such linguistic annotation allows collecting information that can be used for comprehensive and sophisticated quantitative research on various phenomena in ancient texts with high level of precision. Examples of questions that can be answered using the data created through treebanking is which verbs are more often associated with masculine gender subjects than feminine; how complex are the sentences in given authors/genres relative to others etc.

===Pedagogical applicaton===

Treebanking has been proven to be useful as a pedagogical tool in various ways. The trees that have already been created can be used in class as a visualisation of sentences that have more complex or unusual syntax, and by getting involved in the act of building the trees themselves students are provided with a form of online exercise on parsing of grammar and syntax. The data created by the joint efforts of students and supervising teachers can then contribute to the creation of a corpus of morpho-syntactically annotated classical texts that could be queried in future research.

Treebanking both tests and improves students’ understanding of Greek or Latin vocabulary (identifying lemmata and parts of speech), grammar (morphological parsing of word forms), and syntax (the dependencies between words and phrases in a sentence). It can also be used to study writing style, and to cast light on the parallels between translations or alternate language versions of a text.

==Treebanking platforms and databases==

Online platforms for treebanking incude those built by [http://www.clarino.uib.no/iness/page ''Infrastructure for the Exploration of Syntax and Semantics (INESS)''] and the [http://www.perseids.org ''Perseids Project'']. Both projects have treebanked databases that can be queried and used for research.

==Bibliography==
===Guidelines===

* Bamman David & al. 2008. Guidelines for the Syntactic Annotation of Latin Treebanks (v. 1.3). https://github.com/PerseusDL/treebank_data/blob/master/v1/latin/docs/guidelines.pdf (only p. 3-21; 24; 26)
* Celano, Giuseppe G.A. 2014. Guidelines for the annotation of the Ancient Greek Dependency Treebank 2.0. https://github.com/PerseusDL/treebank_data/edit/master/AGDT2/guidelines (only Chapter 3, including analysis of the hyperlinked examples)

===Studies===

* Celano, Giuseppe G.A. (2019). "The Dependency Treebanks for Ancient Greek and Latin." In Monica Berti (ed), ''Digital Classical Philology: Ancient Greek and Latin in the Digital Revolution''. De Gruyter. Pp. 279–298. Available: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110599572-016
* Gorman, Vanessa B. & Robert J. Gorman (2016). “Approaching Questions of Text Reuse in Ancient Greek Using Computational Syntactic Stylometry.” ''Open Linguistics'' 2, 500-510. Available: https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2016-0026
* Haug, Dag. 2015. “Treebanks in historical linguistic research.” In Carlotta Viti (ed.), ''Perspectives on Historical Syntax'', Benjamins, pp. 188-202. http://folk.uio.no/daghaug/historical-treebanks.pdf
* Mambrini, Francesco. 2016. "The Ancient Greek Dependency Treebank: Linguistic Annotation in a Teaching Environment." In: Bodard, G & Romanello, M (eds.) ''Digital Classics Outside the Echo-Chamber: Teaching, Knowledge Exchange & Public Engagement'', pp. 83–99. London: Ubiquity Press. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/bat.f
* Mambrini, Francesco, 2019. “Nominal vs Copular Clauses in a Diachronic Corpus of Ancient Greek Historians.” ''Journal of Greek Linguistics'' 19, 90-113. Available: https://doi.org/10.1163/15699846-01901003
* Passarotti, Marco (2019). "The Project of the Index Thomisticus Treebank." In Monica Berti (ed), ''Digital Classical Philology: Ancient Greek and Latin in the Digital Revolution''. De Gruyter. Pp. 299–320. Available: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110599572-017
* Reggiani, Nicola, 2017. "New Trends in Papyrology. Quantitative anaysis of textual data: past and future of computational linguistics applied to papyrology." Chapter 7.1 in ''Digital Papyrology I: Methods, Tools and Trends''. De Gruyter. Pp. 178–189. Available: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110547474-007
* Smith, Neel, 2016. "Morphological Analysis of Historical Languages." ''Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies'' 59.2, 89–102. Available: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2016.12040.x
* Vierros, Marja (2018). "Linguistic Annotation of the Digital Papyrological Corpus: Sematia." In Nicola Reggiani (ed), ''Digital Papyrology II: Case Studies on the Digital Edition of Ancient Greek Papyri''. De Gruyter. Pp. 105–118. Available: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110547450-006

===Presentations and tutorials (from Sunoikisis Digital Classics)===

* June 16, 2015: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0ZzS0ghOOI An Introduction to Treebanking] (Neven Jovanović) (YouTube)
* June 23, 2015: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbzFFb1ufac Comparing Trees: an Introduction to Treebanking Evaluation] (Giuseppe G.A. Celano)
* Feb 10, 2016: [https://github.com/SunoikisisDC/SunoikisisDC-2016/wiki/Introduction-to-Treebanking-Part-I-%28February-10%29 Introduction to Treebanking Part I] (Giuseppe G.A. Celano and Dag Haug)
* Feb 17, 2016: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z2oxu8OMqQ Introduction to Treebanking Part II] (Giuseppe G.A. Celano) (YouTube)
* Feb 9, 2017: [https://github.com/SunoikisisDC/SunoikisisDC-2016-2017/wiki/Annotating-treebanks Annotating treebanks] (Polina Yordanova and Marja Vierros)
* Feb 16, 2017: [https://github.com/SunoikisisDC/SunoikisisDC-2016-2017/wiki/Querying-treebanks-INESS-Regex Querying treebanks - INESS & Regex] (Dag Haug)
* Feb 23, 2017: [https://github.com/SunoikisisDC/SunoikisisDC-2016-2017/wiki/Querying-treebanks-XML,-XQuery,-XPath Querying treebanks - XML/XQuery/XPath] (Giuseppe G.A. Celano)
* March 1, 2018: [https://github.com/SunoikisisDC/SunoikisisDC-2017-2018/wiki/Treebanking-1:-morphosyntactic-annotation Treebanking 1] (Marja Vierros, Polina Yordanova)
* March 8, 2018: [https://github.com/SunoikisisDC/SunoikisisDC-2017-2018/wiki/Treebanking-2:-using-treebanks Treebanking 2] (Dag Haug, Francesco Mambrini)
* Feb 7, 2019: [https://github.com/SunoikisisDC/SunoikisisDC-2018-2019/wiki/ICS02:-5.-Introduction-to-Treebanking Introduction to Treebanking] (Marja Vierros & Polina Yordanova)
* Feb 21, 2019: [https://github.com/SunoikisisDC/SunoikisisDC-2018-2019/wiki/ICS02:-7.-Using-Treebanks Using treebanked corpora & Universal Dependencies] (Timo Korkiakangas & Marco Passarotti)

===See also===

* [[GLTreebank]] mailing list
* [[Ancient Greek and Latin Dependency Treebank]]
* [[PapyGreek]]
* [[Index Thomisticus Treebank]]

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