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I was very interested, and a little surprised, by the recent announcement by the Gaelic Algorithm Research Group about a Gaelic Linguistic Analyser which performs Part-of-Speech tagging, lemmatisation, and syntactic parsing. Surprised, because I knew of the work that had been done previously on automatic PoS tagging, but
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Let me tell you about a little side-project I'm cooking up. One of the great advantages Latin students have in seeking a lot of reading content, is that between the easy reading material that some Latin teachers are pumping out, and the products of the Direct Method,
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So the first step in my project is getting from a print text to a digital text. There are a few options for doing OCR. Bruce Robertson at Mt. Allison University is involved in LACE: Greek OCR, a large scale project to produce high quality OCR of ancient Greek texts.
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(Here for the blog-series kick-off post). We’re playing catch-up a little, and these are things I did in the tail end of 2017. It’s been a long time since I’ve done anything with Unix. About 10 years, actually, and my unix experience was limited
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One of my goals for 2018 is to acquire a working skillset in areas of Digital Humanities. As I do so, I plan to blog regularly on that ‘mission’. In today’s post, I provide some context for the start of that journey. I’d say I’ve long had