[B-Greek] Fwd: alpheios beta release
Carl Conrad
cwconrad2 at mac.com
Mon Mar 8 05:06:13 EST 2010
Last September I first called attention to the Alpheios multi-
resource interface for reading Greek (and Latin as well) texts on
line. Yesterday I received the following message which I am sending
on verbatim to the list. There are numerous items accessible from the
web interface, including complete morphological paradigms, the
complete Smyth grammar, these and other tools readily accessible
while working on a Greek or Latin text from the Perseus site or
from Bibliotheca Augustana. It is really a marvelous resource -- but
it does take some exploratory probing to get accustomed to all that's
available there.
Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: Harry Alexis Diakoff <harry.diakoff at verizon.net>
> Date: March 7, 2010 6:48:59 PM EST
> To: Carl Conrad <cwconrad2 at mac.com>
> Subject: alpheios beta release
> Reply-To: harry.diakoff at verizon.net
>
> Dear Professor Conrad,
>
> Just thought you might like to know that we have finally released a beta version of our software
> tools that should work with any HTML text in standard UNICODE. Of course, many of our tools
> require specially prepared texts, such as those aligned with translations or analyzed into treebanks,
> but the basic lookup tools should today work with pretty much everything that isn't just an image.
> Your very truly, Harry Diakoff for the Alpheios Project
>
> [I append our beta release announcement]
>
> Free reading and learning web tools released for Greek and Latin by the
> Alpheios Project.
>
>
> The Alpheios Project has released the first beta version of a set of
> free reading aids and learning tools for Classical Greek and Latin. The
> source code is also freely available to developers.
>
> The tools are intended to provide unusually convenient lexicographical
> and grammatical support for anyone wishing to read HTML versions of original
> Greek and Latin texts, whether online or on a local computer. Pedagogical
> modules are currently being added for those who wish to learn the language.
> We are also making available prototypes of several related tools, including
> a graphical interface for treebank editing that can easily be adapted to
> different annotation schemes.
> The reading tools and the initial pedagogical modules can be
> downloaded from http://alpheios.net
>
> The other resources and prototypes currently in development can
> be accessed at
> http://alpheios.net/content/resources-under-development
>
> It is hoped that these tools can facilitate consultation of original
> texts by scholars in other fields, provide customized options for
> students who wish to learn the language through the study of specific texts,
> and generally promote appreciation of the unique legacy of the classical
> world.
>
> An important feature of the tools is that their architecture was
> designed to facilitate the rapid addition of other resources, such as
> lexicons, grammars, and reference materials, and even other languages,
> especially highly inflected ones where the value of such tools seems
> especially compelling. To illustrate this flexibility we are also making
> modules available for Arabic and Chinese; but our design goal was to
> create an infrastructure that would make the creation of similar tools
> for any language as easy as possible.
>
> We would greatly appreciate comments, suggestions and criticism because
> the tools are still in active development
>
> Yours very truly,
>
> The Alpheios Team
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
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