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Dear all,<br>
<br>
The Helsinki Research on the Ancient World (HelRAW) seminar series
continues despite the exceptional situation at the University -
online! Our next seminar is with Polina Yordanova on April 6th, with
her talk "Finding One’s Way in the Digital Forest: Discontinuity in
a Treebank of Documentary Papyri".<br>
<br>
<b>When:</b> Monday April 6th 2020, at 17:00<br>
<b>Where: </b>In Zoom: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/775267600">https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/775267600</a><br>
<b>Event page: </b><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.helsinki.fi/en/news/language-culture/online-helraw-polina-yordanova-6.4.2020">https://www.helsinki.fi/en/news/language-culture/online-helraw-polina-yordanova-6.4.2020</a><br>
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<b>Polina Yordanova (University of Helsinki): </b><b><i>Finding
One’s Way in the Digital Forest: Discontinuity in a Treebank of
Documentary Papyri</i></b><b><br>
</b><br>
<b>Abstract: </b>Word order has traditionally been an
underrepresented topic in the research of Ancient Greek, and even
those studies that are particularly addressing it are mostly
examining literary materials. Documentary sources could provide
insight into some unexplored aspects of the development of the
language, but, due to their vast number and miscellaneous content,
traditional philological methods would necessarily be limited in
their research scope.<br>
This is where digital technologies come in as a solution giving
scholars the opportunity to draw their conclusions on quantitative
data that serves as the basis for qualitative approach.
Morphosyntactic annotations of corpora of texts (a.k.a. treebanking)
is a method proven to be extremely suitable for linguistic research
from all points of view, but it is perhaps the best tool for
studying word order in particular, as it allows the researcher to
keep track of both the<br>
position of words in the sentence and the syntactic relations
between them.<br>
Creating a morphosyntactically-annotated corpus can be a cumbersome
and time-consuming process, especially if made by hand, but it is
querying treebanks that is the truly problematic endeavor. In order
to query my trees for discontinuous structures, I have employed the
power of XSLT (eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations),
which allows me to manipulate the treebanked files and enrich their
encoding through additional annotations. I will demonstrate how this
approach can be applied on a heterogeneous corpus such as the one
assembled by the Digital Grammar of the Documentary Papyri
(PapyGreek) project.<br>
<br>
The event is a part of an interdisciplinary seminar series titled
Helsinki Research on the Ancient World. This monthly seminar
operates under the aegis of the PapyGreek
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/digital-grammar-of-greek-documentary-papyri">https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/digital-grammar-of-greek-documentary-papyri</a>)
and SpaceLaw (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.spacelaw.fi">www.spacelaw.fi</a>) projects. The seminar is open for
all.<br>
<br>
Welcome!
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Heta Björklund
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:heta.bjorklund@helsinki.fi">heta.bjorklund@helsinki.fi</a>
+358504482563
Projektikoordinaattori / Project coordinator
Eurooppalaisen oikeuden, identiteetin ja historian tutkimuksen huippuyksikkö / The Centre of Excellence in Law, Identity and the European Narratives (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.eurostorie.org">www.eurostorie.org</a>)
Law, Governance and Space: Questioning the Foundations of the Republican Tradition (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.spacelaw.fi">www.spacelaw.fi</a>)
Siltavuorenpenger 1 A, huone / room 323
PL / P.O. Box 9, 00014 Helsingin yliopisto / University of Helsinki</pre>
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