Computational valency lexica and Homeric formularity"

Barbara McGillivray; Martina Astrid Rodda

Computational valency lexica and Homeric formularity"

Barbara McGillivray, Martina Astrid Rodda

Digital Humanities

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

11 Downloads (Pure)

Abstract

The wider availability of large-scale datasets and reproducible algorithms has boosted the application of NLP to living languages. On the other hand, dead languages benefit from the availability of curated resources both to offset the sparseness of available data and to make data accessible to researchers. This paper presents AGVaLex, a computational valency lexicon automatically extracted from the Ancient Greek Dependency Treebank. It contains quantitative corpus-driven morphological, syntactic and lexical information about verbs and their direct and indirect arguments and has a wide range of applications for the study of ancient Greek. To illustrate these applications, we present a case study that compares the semantic flexibility of transitive verb formulae in archaic Greek epic to a non-formulaic corpus, to detect unique patterns of variation. The case study also illustrates the possibilities afforded by AGVaLeX to scholars with a less extensive background in computational corpus-based research.

Original language	English
Journal	Journal of Greek Linguistics
Publication status	Accepted/In press - 12 Jul 2024

Access to Document

article_revisedAccepted author manuscript, 573 KBLicence: CC BY

Cite this

@article{480f45c80b2d4c97a12d6ed5ee69205b,

title = "Computational valency lexica and Homeric formularity{"}",

abstract = "The wider availability of large-scale datasets and reproducible algorithms has boosted the application of NLP to living languages. On the other hand, dead languages benefit from the availability of curated resources both to offset the sparseness of available data and to make data accessible to researchers. This paper presents AGVaLex, a computational valency lexicon automatically extracted from the Ancient Greek Dependency Treebank. It contains quantitative corpus-driven morphological, syntactic and lexical information about verbs and their direct and indirect arguments and has a wide range of applications for the study of ancient Greek. To illustrate these applications, we present a case study that compares the semantic flexibility of transitive verb formulae in archaic Greek epic to a non-formulaic corpus, to detect unique patterns of variation. The case study also illustrates the possibilities afforded by AGVaLeX to scholars with a less extensive background in computational corpus-based research.",

author = "Barbara McGillivray and Rodda, {Martina Astrid}",

year = "2024",

month = jul,

day = "12",

language = "English",

journal = "Journal of Greek Linguistics",

issn = "1566-5844",

publisher = "Brill",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - Computational valency lexica and Homeric formularity"

AU - McGillivray, Barbara

AU - Rodda, Martina Astrid

PY - 2024/7/12

Y1 - 2024/7/12

N2 - The wider availability of large-scale datasets and reproducible algorithms has boosted the application of NLP to living languages. On the other hand, dead languages benefit from the availability of curated resources both to offset the sparseness of available data and to make data accessible to researchers. This paper presents AGVaLex, a computational valency lexicon automatically extracted from the Ancient Greek Dependency Treebank. It contains quantitative corpus-driven morphological, syntactic and lexical information about verbs and their direct and indirect arguments and has a wide range of applications for the study of ancient Greek. To illustrate these applications, we present a case study that compares the semantic flexibility of transitive verb formulae in archaic Greek epic to a non-formulaic corpus, to detect unique patterns of variation. The case study also illustrates the possibilities afforded by AGVaLeX to scholars with a less extensive background in computational corpus-based research.

AB - The wider availability of large-scale datasets and reproducible algorithms has boosted the application of NLP to living languages. On the other hand, dead languages benefit from the availability of curated resources both to offset the sparseness of available data and to make data accessible to researchers. This paper presents AGVaLex, a computational valency lexicon automatically extracted from the Ancient Greek Dependency Treebank. It contains quantitative corpus-driven morphological, syntactic and lexical information about verbs and their direct and indirect arguments and has a wide range of applications for the study of ancient Greek. To illustrate these applications, we present a case study that compares the semantic flexibility of transitive verb formulae in archaic Greek epic to a non-formulaic corpus, to detect unique patterns of variation. The case study also illustrates the possibilities afforded by AGVaLeX to scholars with a less extensive background in computational corpus-based research.

M3 - Article

SN - 1566-5844

JO - Journal of Greek Linguistics

JF - Journal of Greek Linguistics

ER -

Computational valency lexica and Homeric formularity"

Abstract

Access to Document

Fingerprint

Cite this