[B-Greek] Lemmatized (Lexical) Searches on TLG

George F Somsel gfsomsel at yahoo.com
Fri Dec 15 10:32:22 EST 2006


Apparently this is available only to subscribers as is the full version since your link produces a "Forbidden" error message.
 
george
gfsomsel
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----- Original Message ----
From: Jim Darlack <jdarlack at gcts.edu>
To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 10:15:10 AM
Subject: [B-Greek] Lemmatized (Lexical) Searches on TLG


Hello b-Greekers

Great news, TLG (Thesaurus Linguae Graecae) can now be searched by lemma
(lexical form). Check out the news blurb below and click the following
link to the lemmatized search page
(http://stephanus.tlg.uci.edu/beta_inst/textsearch). 

As of yet, you cannot limit your search to a certain group of texts (as
you can do with non-lemmatized searches), nor can you imput text in
Unicode, but you can order your results by date.

This is a real boon to to those of us who need to access extrabiblical
Greek texts.

TLG's full version is only available by subscription.

Jim

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James M. Darlack
Assistant Librarian for Reference & Bibliographic Instruction
Goddard Library, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary 
130 Essex Street, South Hamilton, MA 01982
http://www.gordonconwell.edu/library/hamilton 
978.646.4004 Phone - 978.646.4567 Fax 
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    Lemmatized searches (BETA version)
<http://stephanus.tlg.uci.edu/beta_inst/textsearch?uid=0&form=lemma> 
    We are pleased to release a new feature of the TLG search
engine, i.e. lemmatized searches. The new feature is still work in
progress and is released for testing purposes. 
    The TLG Lemmatization Project
    Work on the TLG lemmatization project began in 2003 and
benefited from access to software known as Morpheus developed by Perseus
<http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/> . We are grateful to the Perseus team
and its Editor-in-Chief, Greg Crane, for providing the Morpheus code and
sharing their experience. Morpheus was designed to deal effectively with
a relatively narrow, well-documented cross section of the Greek
language, i.e. the classical canon, meaning Epic and Attic Greek with
some Doric, Ionic, and Koine forms. The TLG corpus encompasses the
totality of Greek literature, including Early Modern Greek, and
Byzantine texts. As a result, lemmatization of the TLG corpus required a
different philosophy and a significantly more complex architecture which
combines lexical and morphological databases and extensive programming
in order to increase parses and achieve higher and more accurate form
recognition. This project was executed largely thanks to the efforts of
Nick Nicholas, a long-time member of the TLG team. Database design and
Java-programming was carried out primarily by Nishad Prakash. Cindy
Moore and Zeya Myint have also contributed to the implementation of the
system.
    The beta version of the TLG lemmatizer recognizes approximately
88% of the unique wordforms in the TLG corpus.
    We welcome suggestions and feedback from our users. 
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