Learning Greek and Latin with Treebanks

SunoikisisDC Digital Classics, Autumn 2022

Session 1: Learning Greek and Latin with Treebanks

Thursday November 3, 2022, starting at 15:00 GMT = 16:00 CET (for 75 minutes)

Convenors: Vanessa Gorman (University of Nebraska Lincoln), Matthew Harrington (Tufts University)

Youtube link: https://youtu.be/Xdu3nZZ6zRo

Slides: tba

Outline

This session discusses the use of Treebanks (morpho-syntactically annotated sentences of ancient texts) in the teaching of ancient Greek and Latin. Based on examples, the experience of two teachers of Greek and Latin, and hands-on demonstration of annotation exercises, we consider the value of both using annotated sentences in an interface such as Arethusa as a teaching tool, and the pedagogical value of students practicing the creation of morphosyntactic annotations themselves.

Suggested readings

• Mambrini, F. 2016. "The Ancient Greek Dependency Treebank: Linguistic Annotation in a Teaching Environment." In Romanello M. & Bodard G, Digital Classics Outside the Echo-Chamber. London: Ubiquity Press. Available: https://doi.org/10.5334/bat.f
• 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
• Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Christopher D. Manning, Joakim Nivre, Daniel Zeman. 2021. "Universal Dependencies." Computational Linguistics 47-2, 255–308. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/coli_a_00402 (esp. first 2 sections - pp. 255-286)

Other resources

• The Ancient Greek and Latin Dependency Treebank
  • Latin Guidelines: https://github.com/PerseusDL/treebank_data/blob/master/v1/latin/docs/guidelines.pdf
  • Ancient Greek Guidelines: https://github.com/PerseusDL/treebank_data/blob/master/AGDT2/guidelines/Greek_guidelines.md
• Log into Arethusa via Perseids
• “Reading Ancient Greek in the Digital Age” (beginning Greek class) by Vanessa Gorman https://vgorman1.github.io/Greek-Language-Class/ (including the YouTube playlist)
• Video tutorials:
  • Treebanking tutorial (by Vanessa Gorman and Polina Yordanova, SunoikisisDC 2020)
  • Treebanking with Arethusa I and Treebanking with Arethusa II
  • Vanessa Gorman's Treebanking playlist

Exercise

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