• Coptic SCRIPTORIUM:A Corpus, Tools, and Methods for Corpus Linguistics and Computational Historical Research in Ancient Egypt

    Project Director(s):
    Caroline T. Schroeder, Amir Zeldes
    Author(s):
    Caroline T. Schroeder, Amir Zeldes
    Date:
    2016
    Group(s):
    Data Rescue
    Subject(s):
    Religion, History
    Item Type:
    White paper
    Institution:
    University of the Pacific
    Tag(s):
    NEH White papers, Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants, NEH Digital Humanities, Ancient languages, Classics, History of religions
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6XS9V
    Abstract:
    Coptic, having evolved from the language of the hieroglyphs of the pharaonic era, represents the last phase of the Egyptian language and is pivotal for a wide range of disciplines, such as linguistics, biblical studies, the history of Christianity, Egyptology, and ancient history. Coptic SCRIPTORIUM provides the first open-source technologies for computational and digital research across the disciplines as applied to Egyptian texts. The project is developing a digitized corpus of Coptic texts available in multiple formats and visualizations (including TEI XML), tools to analyze and process the language (e.g., the first Coptic part-of-speech tagger), a database with search and visualization capabilities, and a collaborative platform for scholars to contribute texts and annotations and to conduct research. The technologies and corpus will function as a collaborative environment for digital research by any scholars working in Coptic.
    Notes:
    The development of a user interface and language analysis tools to facilitate interdisciplinary, collaborative research and annotation of digitized Coptic texts.
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    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    7 years ago
    License:
    Attribution-NonCommercial
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