A World of Possibilities: a corpus-based approach to the diachrony of modality in Latin

https://openmethods.dariah.eu/2020/01/20/a-world-of-possibilities-a-corpus-based-approach-to-the-diachrony-of-modality-in-latin-2/ OpenMethods introduction to: A World of Possibilities: a corpus-based approach to the diachrony of modality in Latin 2020-01-20 09:28:42 Introduction: Hosted at the University of Lausanne, "A world of possibilities. Modal pathways over an extra-long period of time: the diachrony in the Latin language" (WoPoss) is a project under development exploiting a corpus-based approach to the study and reconstruction of the diachrony of modality in Latin. Following specific annotation guidelines applied to a set of various texts pertaining to the time span between 3rd century BCE and 7th century CE, the work team lead by Francesca Dell'Oro aims at analyzing the patterns of modality in the Latin language through a close consideration of lexical markers. Marinella Testori https://zenodo.org/record/3560951 Blog post Analysis Annotating Digital Humanities English Enrichment Interpretation Language Methods Modeling Research Activities Research Objects Sharing annotation diachronic corpora Latin modality Open data TEI

Introduction by OpenMethods Editor (Marinella Testori):

Hosted at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland), “A world of possibilities. Modal pathways over an extra-long period of time: the diachrony in the Latin language” (WoPoss) is a project under development exploiting a corpus-based approach to the study and reconstruction of the diachrony of modality in Latin. 

Following specific annotation guidelines (https://zenodo.org/record/3560951#.XgTeRyMwiRY) applied to a set of various texts pertaining to the time span between 3rd century BCE and 7th century CE, the work team lead by Francesca Dell’Oro aims at analyzing the patterns of modality in the Latin language through a close consideration of lexical markers. 

During the recent DARIAH-CH workshop held at the University of Neuchatel and  devoted to “Sharing the Experience: Workflows for the Digital Humanities“, the WoPoss team presented a paper explaining the whole details of the project. 

In “WoPoss: a Workflow for the Semantic Annotation of Modality in a Diachronic Corpus” (https://dariah-ch-ws19.sciencesconf.org/294836) the goals and the methodology applied in the project are fully described. 

References

WoPoss official website: http://woposs.unil.ch/index.php

Dell’Oro, Francesca (2019). WoPoss guidelines for annotation. Zenodo.

https://zenodo.org/record/3560951#.XgTgniMwiRY

Sabel Bermudez, Helena, Dell’Oro Francesca, Marongiu Paola. WoPoss: a Workflow of Semantic Annotation of Modality in a Diachronic Corpus.

https://dariah-ch-ws19.sciencesconf.org/294836