[Antiquitas] HelRAW seminar 6.4.2020: Polina Yordanova, "Finding One’s Way in the Digital Forest: Discontinuity in a Treebank of Documentary Papyri"

[Heta Björklund]

Dear all,

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".

*When:* Monday April 6th 2020, at 17:00
*Where: *In Zoom: https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/775267600
*Event page: 
*https://www.helsinki.fi/en/news/language-culture/online-helraw-polina-yordanova-6.4.2020

*Polina Yordanova (University of Helsinki): **/Finding One’s Way in the 
Digital Forest: Discontinuity in a Treebank of Documentary Papyri/**
*
*Abstract: *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.
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
position of words in the sentence and the syntactic relations between them.
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.

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 
(https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/digital-grammar-of-greek-documentary-papyri) 
and SpaceLaw (www.spacelaw.fi) projects. The seminar is open for all.

Welcome!

-- 
Heta Björklund
heta.bjorklund at helsinki.fi
+358504482563
Projektikoordinaattori / Project coordinator
Eurooppalaisen oikeuden, identiteetin ja historian tutkimuksen huippuyksikkö / The Centre of Excellence in Law, Identity and the European Narratives (www.eurostorie.org)
Law, Governance and Space: Questioning the Foundations of the Republican Tradition (www.spacelaw.fi)
Siltavuorenpenger 1 A, huone / room 323
PL / P.O. Box 9, 00014 Helsingin yliopisto / University of Helsinki

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