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Vector space models of Ancient Greek word meaning, and a case study on Homer

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Our paper describes the creation and evaluation of a Distributional Semantics model of ancient Greek. We developed a vector space model where every word is represented by a vector which encodes information about its linguistic context(s). We validate different vector space models by testing their output against benchmarks obtained from scholarship from the ancient world, modern lexicography, and an NLP resource. Finally, to show how the model can be applied to a research task, we provide the example of a small-scale study of semantic variation in epic formulae, recurring units with limited linguistic flexibility.
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Published
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Peer reviewed

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https://www.atala.org/content/tal_60_3_3

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
HUMS
Department:
Classics
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Author
ORCID:
0000-0002-5214-8037
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
HUMS
Department:
Classics
Oxford college:
Wolfson College
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https://ror.org/0439y7842
Grant:
EP/N510129/1


Publisher:
ATALA
Journal:
Traitement Automatique des Langues More from this journal
Volume:
60
Issue:
3
Pages:
63-87
Publication date:
2019-12-31
Acceptance date:
2019-10-31
EISSN:
1248-9433
ISSN:
1965-0906


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English
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pubs:1078540
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uuid:407804f7-5eb0-4c77-ba55-705b163e7a27
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1078540
Deposit date:
2019-12-20

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