Digital Classics Online

Theoria cum praxi

Reinhold Scholl — 2018-12-05

Constructing Stoplists for Historical Languages

Patrick J. Burns — 2018-12-05

Stoplists are lists of words that have been filtered from documents prior to text analysis tasks, usually words that are either high frequency or that have low semantic value. This paper describes the development of a generalizable method for building stoplists in the Classical Language Toolkit (CLTK), an open-source Python platform for natural language processing research on historical languages. Stoplists are not readily available for many historical languages, and those that are available often offer little documentation about their sources or method of construction. The development of a generalizable method for building historical-language stoplists offers the following benefits: 1. better support for well-documented, data-driven, and replicable results in the use of CLTK resources; 2. reduction of arbitrary decision-making in building stoplists; 3. increased consistency in how stopwords are extracted from documents across multiple languages; and 4. clearer guidelines and standards for CLTK developers and contributors, a helpful step forward in managing the complexity of a multi-language open-source project.

Digital Fabius Pictor

Kevin Straßburger — 2018-12-05

The following essay describes and explains digital working at the text fragments of Fabius Pictor published by Karl Müller in 1849. For comparison reasons and as a control mechanism we also encoded the 2^nd edition in 1914 of Hermann Peter. The texts were processed with XML Oxygen Editor in order to create digital editions of all of his known fragments. This approach allows for filtering the semantical information about persons, places, editorial techniques and characteristics. Also problems, questions and ideas of solutions were enumerated, everything in view of the coding of the text.

Romans 1 by 1: Overview of a Research Project

Rada Varga — 2018-12-05

The current article presents the main scientific results extracted from the Romans 1by1 platform. While the database has been technically documented before, the analyses, based on it, is introduced here for the first time. After gathering and structuring all the prosopographical information on all the people, attested epigraphically in Roman Moesia Inferior, Moesia Superior and Dacia, we are able now to present exhaustive statistics and a comprehensive overview, as well as to get relevant conclusions regarding the epigraphic habits of each province.

κριθή oder πυρός? - Eine systematische Annäherung an den Getreideanbau im klassischen Athen mit Hilfe der Kookkurrenzanalyse von eAQUA und den Word Frequency Statistics der Perseus Digital Library

Sven-Philipp Brandt — 2018-12-05

This article deals with the long-lasting discussion about grain (e.g. demand, crop growing, trade and consumption of wheat or barley) in Classical Athens. The author of this article tries to augment this discussion with the help of some tools of the Digital Humanities, especially the analysis of cooccurrences of eaqua.net and the word frequency study tool of the Perseus Digital Library. The Blended Reading will be the main method, so the quantitative and the qualitative analysis of the ancient literary sources will be combined in order to get new information about the distribution of barley and wheat in classical times.