[Corpora-List] Processing Latin texts

[Joakim Nivre]

Hi Thierry,

We have trained and evaluated MaltParser (an open-source data-driven 
dependency parser available from http://w3.msi.vxu.se/jha/maltparser/) on 
the Latin Dependency Treebank described by Bamman and Crane in their paper 
at the 2006 Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories 
(http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/tlt2006/pdf/110.pdf). However, the results so far 
are not very impressive because of the limited amount of training data and 
the high amount of non-projective structures (especially in poetry). 
Moreover, we did not use a part-of-speech tagger for preprocessing but 
simply used the manual part-of-speech annotation in the treebank as input. 

I know that Michael Covington did work on dependency parsing for Latin 
some ten or fifteen years ago, but I don't know on what scale or whether 
any tools or resources are still available.

I would be interested to hear about other tools and resources for Latin if 
you post a summary to the list.

Best,
Joakim Nivre

On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Thierry Poibeau wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
> 
> I am interested in processing Latin texts. I would like to know if 
> anyone has ever heard of any available tool for this purpose 
> (Part-of-Speech tagger, chunker, parser, etc.).
> 
> Thanks,
> Thierry Poibeau
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>       _____________________________________________________________________________ 
> Envoyez avec Yahoo! Mail. Une boite mail plus intelligente http://mail.yahoo.fr
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Corpora mailing list
> Corpora at uib.no
> http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora
> 

==================================================================
Joakim Nivre

Växjö University		Uppsala University
School of Mathematics		Department of Linguistics
and Systems Engineering		and Philology
SE-35195 Växjö			Box 635, SE-75126 Uppsala

Tel: +46 470 708992		Tel: +46 18 4717009
Fax: +46 470 84004		Fax: +46 18 4711094
E-mail: nivre at msi.vxu.se	E-mail: joakim.nivre at lingfil.uu.se

URL: http://www.msi.vxu.se/users/nivre
==================================================================
-------------- next part --------------
_______________________________________________
Corpora mailing list
Corpora at uib.no
http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora