Naslov
Formalising the Latin Language on the Example of Medieval Latin Wills

Autori
Mijić, Linda ; Bartulović, Anita

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
14th International conference NOOJ 2020 : Book of abstracts. Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu: FF Press, Zagreb 2020. / - , 2020, 60-61

ISBN
978-953-175-872-7

Skup
14th International Conference NOOJ 2020

Mjesto i datum
Zagreb, Hrvatska, 05.06.2020. - 07.06.2020

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Medieval Latin wills Morphological grammars Latin language NooJ

Sažetak
Language models for more than thirty languages have been created by NooJ, a tool in the field of computational linguistics. So far, such projects did not include resources for the Latin language. This paper will present an example of processing a corpus of Latin texts, the aim of which is to define a linguistic model for (medieval) Latin in the NooJ tool. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire (476 AD), classical Latin continued to be used, and it became a lingua franca of medieval Europe. It was used by the Church, in science, literature, administration, diplomacy, etc. Medieval Latin underwent spelling, morphological and semantic changes, which were characteristic for all of Europe, but local variation also developed due to very specific historical and political frameworks and linguistic situations. For the purposes of this paper, a corpus has been processed consisting of 337 wills, drawn up between 1209 and 1409 in the Zadar commune. Of these, 253 wills have been published in hard copy in Codex diplomaticus Croatiae, Slavoniae et Dalmatiae I‒XVIII, Supplementa I‒III and Notarilia Jadertina I‒V, and 84 are manuscripts kept in the State Archives in Zadar. All the printed wills have been scanned and digitally processed in an OCR program, while the unpublished handwritten wills have been transcribed. After a digitally readable text has been created, a dictionary has beencompiled and nouns have been processed. Their semantic domains have been defined according to the function of the people mentioned in the will and the type of legacies. Based on this dictionary resource, a NooJ morphological grammar has been created, which describes the five basic types of the nominal declension system. Later work will include the development of morphological grammars to identify other types of inflected words. The resources created after the research will be made available to the wider scientific community for further research, especially in the fields of medieval studies and digital humanities.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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