Ancient Greek and Latin Dependency Treebank 2.0

 [First posted in AWOL 20 September 2016, updated 25 October 2024]

 

 The Ancient Greek and Latin Dependency Treebank

 Giuseppe G. A. Celano, Gregory Crane, Bridget Almas & al.

The Ancient Greek and Latin Dependency Treebank (AGLDT) is the earliest treebank for Ancient Greek and Latin. The project started at Tufts University in 2006 and is currently under development and maintenance at Leipzig University-Tufts University. Data and documentation are made freely available on GitHub. The present webpage is for presentational purposes only. More information about the creation of the data is contained in the subfolders of the GitHub repository. The current release is v. 2.1.

The Ancient Greek Dependency Treebank

The AGDT 2 has been created as a refinement of the AGDT 1. In a new extended annotation scheme, it defines the morphological and syntactic annotations more stringently, and adds a semantic layer built on the categories identified in H. W. Smyth's Grammar. The texts available in the current release (v. 2.1) are the following:

Author	Text	Loci
Aesop	Fables	1.1-1.50
Aeschylus	Agamemnon
	Eumenides
	Coephoroe
	Persae
	Prometheus
	Septem contra Thebas
	Supplices
Athenaeus	The Deipnosophists	12, 13
Diodorus Siculus	Bibliotheca Historica	11
Herodotus	Historiae	1
Hesiod	Theogonia
	Operae et dies
	Scutum
Homer	Iliad	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
	Odyssey	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
Lysias	De caede Eratosthenis
	In Alcibiadem 1
	In Alcibiadem 2
	In Pancleonem
Plato	Euthyphro
Plutarch	Alcibiades
	Lycurgus
Polybius	Historiae	1
Pseudo Apollodorus	Library	1.1.1-1.4.1
Pseudo Homer	Hymn to Demeter
Sophocles	Ajax
	Antigone
	Electra
	Oedipus Tyrannus
	Trachinae
Thucydides	Histories	1.1-1.88, 1.89-1.117, 1.118-1.146

The Latin Dependency Treebank

The Latin Dependency Treebank contains texts annotated according to the guidelines v. 1.3. The current release (v. 2.1) contains the following texts:

Author	Text	Loci
Augustus	Res Gestae
Caesar	Commentarii de Bello Gallico	2.1-2.3; 2.5; 2.7; 2.9; 2.14-2.18; 2.32-2.33
Cicero	In Catilinam	1.1-2.11
Jerome	Vulgata
Vergil	Aeneid	6, 1-336
Ovid	Metamorphoses
Petronius	Satyricon	26-78
Phaedrus	Fabulae	1-3
Propertius	Elegiae	1.1-1.22
Sallust	Bellum Catilinae
Suetonius	Life of Augustus	1-55
Tacitus	Historiae	1.1-1.21

Annotators

The Ancient Greek and Latin Dependency Treebanks are built from the work of dedicated students and researchers from across the world. Over 200 people have annotated texts; the hard work of those who have contributed their annotations as part of the official treebanks are within the data.

Related technologies

Most texts have been annotated with Arethusa, accessible within the free collaborative platform Perseids (instructions on how to join it here). A local treebanking environment is also provided by Alpheios. The treebank data can be queried online via Structural Search and Tündra. It is also possible to automatically compare annotations performed in Arethusa with Dolphin.

Contribute to enlarge the collection!

If you would like to contribute, have a look at the texts already treebanked in order to familiarize yourself with the formalism. You should also read the annotation guidelines (Ancient Greek and/or Latin), which clarify most doubts that may arise. If you want to do some practice by treebanking some sentences, this can be accomplished by joining the Perseids platform for free (instructions on how to do this here). After that, if you enjoy treebanking and would like to annotate a longer text, write to us in advance (contacts), so we can provide you with more instructions.

Acknowledgements

David Bamman, editor emeritus.

Funders

This work is made possible by:

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and The Perseids Project; the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation; the Alpheios Project; and Tufts University.

Foundational support has been provided by:

The National Science Foundation [awards IIS-9817484, BCS-0616521, IIS-0910165]; The National Endowment for the Humanities [awards PR-50013-08, HJ-50013-10, HD-51548-12]; The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, CyberEdition Project; The Institute of Museum and Library Sciences [award LG-06-11-0326-11]; and Tufts Collaborates.

Copyright

Data are released under a CC BY-SA 3.0 Licence.

Contacts

Send questions to (surname of Giuseppe above) at informatik.uni-leipzig.de