How to Annotate Cuneiform Texts

Monday, April 1, 2024

Matthew Ong ¹
¹ UC Berkeley

Submitted on: October 02, 2023

Published on: October 06, 2023

Peer reviewed: March 16, 2024

Reviewed by: Heather D. Baker ; Chiara Palladino doi

Summary: A high level overview of how to annotate a cuneiform text for linguistic content.

Lesson Overview
Basic facts about cuneiform
The Purpose of Annotating
The Stages of Annotating
Preprocessing the Raw Text
Making the Annotations
Annotation layers
Part of speech layer
Syntactic layer
Morphological layer
The Output File
Issues to Consider When Annotating
Choosing How to Store Results
Final Observations