Classical Philology in the Time of AI: Exploring the Potential of Parallel Corpora in Ancient Language

Tariq Yousef, Chiara Palladino, Farnoosh Shamsian


Abstract
This paper provides an overview of diverse applications of parallel corpora in ancient languages, particularly Ancient Greek. In the first part, we provide the fundamental principles of parallel corpora and a short overview of their applications in the study of ancient texts. In the second part, we illustrate how to leverage on parallel corpora to perform various NLP tasks, including automatic translation alignment, dynamic lexica induction, and Named Entity Recognition. In the conclusions, we emphasize current limitations and future work.
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2023.alp-1.21
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Proceedings of the Ancient Language Processing Workshop
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September
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2023
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Varna, Bulgaria
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Adam Anderson, Shai Gordin, Bin Li, Yudong Liu, Marco C. Passarotti
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INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria
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179–192
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.alp-1.21
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Tariq Yousef, Chiara Palladino, and Farnoosh Shamsian. 2023. Classical Philology in the Time of AI: Exploring the Potential of Parallel Corpora in Ancient Language. In Proceedings of the Ancient Language Processing Workshop, pages 179–192, Varna, Bulgaria. INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria.
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Classical Philology in the Time of AI: Exploring the Potential of Parallel Corpora in Ancient Language (Yousef et al., ALP-WS 2023)
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