Myria

Myria

 

Myria is a treebank-based vocabulary tool. It contains about 6000 entries, all of which have a frequency of at least 50 occurrences in a large automatically analyzed corpus. For each lemma, the tool offers the following information:

• in which authors and genres is this lemma strikingly frequent?
• which words are semantically related?
• in which collostructions (collocations and constructions) does the lemma occur?

Myria does not focus on offering translations and lexicographical information. For this, links to other online initiatives, such as Logeion and Wiktionary, are established.

This tool is developed by Toon Van Hal and Alek Keersmaekers. Frédéric Pietowski created the technical frame of the responsive website, and Toon Van Hal dressed it up. We are indebted to our student assistants Martijn Jaspers, Martijn Windelinckx, Mathieu Lonbois & Yoran Joosten for making first versions of translations of the Greek sentences in Chilia. The tool is still under active development (see FAQ).

Chilia

An educational subpart of Myria, Chilia contains ca. 1000 very frequent words. Each word is clarified by means of an authentic sentence, which is in turn exclusively built from words which also belong to the Chilia list (with the exception of proper names). Thanks to this feature, learners of Ancient Greek are stimulated to study vocabulary in context by carefully working through these example sentences. For each sentence, a treebank is available (we have treebanked most sentences ourselves, but fortunately we could also rely on already existing treebanks).

More information

• Van Hal, Toon. 2019. “Het Chilia-project. Duizend woorden over duizend woorden.” Parels in schrift. Huldeboek voor Marc De Groote, ed. by Tine Scheijnen & Berenice Verhelst, 95–97. Gent: Universiteit Gent | Skribis.
• Van Hal, Toon & Alek Keersmaekers. 2020. “Visualizing the Ancient Greek forest through the trees: how treebanks can advance the education of classical languages” Les Études classiques 88 (forthcoming)
• Keersmaekers, Alek, Wouter Mercelis, Colin Swaelens & Toon Van Hal. 2019. “Creating, Enriching and Valorising Treebanks of Ancient Greek: the ongoing Pedalion-project.” Paris. Available at: https://syntaxfest.github.io/syntaxfest19/proceedings/papers/paper_68.pdf.