Developing an annotator for Latin texts using Wikipedia

Raffaele Guarasci (1)

1 UNISA - Università degli Studi di Salerno = University of Salerno

This work investigates the feasibility of using Wikipedia as a resource for annotations of Latin texts. Although Wikipedia is an excellent resource from which to extract many kinds of information (morphological, syntactic and semantic) to be used in NLP tasks on modern languages, it was rarely applied to perform NLP tasks for the Latin language. The work presents the first steps of the development of a POS Tagger based on the Latin version of Wiktionary and a Wikipedia-based semantic annotator.

Mots clés: Part-of-speech tagger; Latin language; Python; Wikipedia annotator

Domaines: Linguistique; Etudes classiques

Raffaele Guarasci. Developing an annotator for Latin texts using Wikipedia. Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities, In press. ⟨hal-01279853v2⟩