Perseus Update: Querying the Perseus Ancient Greek and Latin Treebank Data in ANNIS

Querying the Perseus Ancient Greek and Latin Treebank Data in ANNIS

by Bridget Almas Posted on January 17, 2013

We are pleased to announce the availability of the Perseus ANNIS Environment for searching the syntactical data in the Perseus Ancient Greek and Latin Treebanks.

ANNIS is an open source, versatile web browser-based search and visualization architecture for complex multilevel linguistic corpora with diverse types of annotation.

The Perseus Ancient Greek Dependency Treebank includes the entirety of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey; Sophocles’ Ajax, Antigone, Electra, Oedipus Tyrannus and Trachinae; Plato’s Euthyphro; and all of the works of Hesiod and Aeschylus – a total of 354,529 words. The Perseus Latin Dependency Treebank includes 53,143 words from eight authors, including Caesar, Cicero, Jerome, Ovid, Petronius, Propertius, Sallust and Vergil.