Category: Scriptorium

Automatically parsed OT and NT corpora

We are pleased to announce that a new version of the automatically annotated New Testament and Old Testament corpora is now available online in Coptic Scriptorium! The new version has substantially better automatic segmentation accuracy, and, for the first time, automatic syntactic parses for each verse. For more information on the syntax annotations, please see […]

Coptic Treebank 2.2 – moving us to better parsing!

With the data release of Universal Dependencies 2.2, an update to the Coptic Treebank is now online! Thanks to work by Mitchell Abrams and Liz Davidson we’ve been able to add the first three chapters from 1 Corinthians and make numerous corrections. Another three chapters of 1 Corinthians and a portion of the Martyrdom of Victor […]

More annotated texts: April 2018 release (v. 2.5.0)

The Coptic Scriptorium team is pleased to announce the latest release of annotated Coptic corpora. This release contains new text data contributed by Alin Suciu and Diliana Atanassova as part of the KELLIA project, as well as transcriptions and annotations from various Coptic SCRIPTORIUM project participants. New data in this release includes excerpts from: The […]

Coptic SCRIPTORIUM at ISAW Conference

Coptic SCRIPTORIUM’s Caroline T. Schroeder will be giving the keynote at the “Future Philologies” Conference at Institute for the Study of the Ancient World today in New York City. We’re looking forward to conversations with col…

Geographic data now available via Pelagios

Coptic SCRIPTORIUM has partnered with Pelagios Commons to make geographic data drawn from published Coptic SCRIPTORIUM texts available via Pelagios’ Peripleo search engine and API. Each entry links a geographic location, identified by its Pleiades resource number, to a query for that term in ANNIS, our search and visualization interface. Therefore, each geographic entity in […]

New corpora – release 2.4.0 is out!

We are pleased to announce release version 2.4.0 with new corpora, with tagged and lemmatized corpora available for reading and download at [1], and fully searchable at [2]: [1] http://data.copticscriptorium.org/ [2] https://corpling.uis.georgetown.edu/annis/scriptorium This release contains new data contributed by Alin Suciu, David Brakke and Diliana Atanassova, as well as out of copyright edition material contributed […]

Collaborating in Public

This week, a research collaboration I’m in released an initial version of a new online Coptic dictionary.  I blogged about it for the project.  Even though it’s very preliminary, we’re pretty excited. I want to […]

Coptic SCRIPTORIUM news now on its own site

Back when we were a two-person show, Coptic SCRIPTORIUM (er, I) posted release updates and news here on this blog.  Now Coptic SCRIPTORIUM has its own blog. Check it out.

Fall 2014 release: more texts, more standardization

We’ve got a new release of material at www.copticscriptorium.org. New stuff: Additional texts: more Sayings from the Coptic Apophthegmata Patrum chapters of 1 Corinthians additional chapters of the Gospel of Mark Updated and corrected annotations […]

Updates to Automated Annotation Tools

We’ve updated our tokenizer (which breaks Coptic bound groups into their constituent morphemes) and our normalizer (which normalizes spelling and orthography to faclitate further automatic annotations). Version 2.0.1 of the tokenizer includes more patterns to […]

Digitizing the Dead and Dismembered: Presentation at DH2014 in Lausanne

We’ll be presenting at DH2014 in Lausanne, Switzerland, on July 10, 2014. “Digitizing the Dead and Dismembered: DH Technologies for the Study of Coptic Texts” The abstract is below (and at the DH2014 site). Here […]

June 2014 release notes

We’ve updated our tokenizer and part-of-speech tagger.  The tokenizer breaks a Coptic bound group into its constituent words and/or morphemes.  The tagger consists of a set of fine-grained and a set of course-grained Coptic models […]