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We are pleased to announce release 4.4.0 of Coptic Scriptorium! Our data now includes over 1,267,000 tokens of searchable, linguistically analyzed Coptic data from dozens of ancient Coptic works (an increase of almost 100,000 tokens from the previous release). We are very grateful to all of our collaborators and contributors, without whom this project could […]
After our recent server outage, we’ve been re-installing our tools and software. Some of our services are now available at new URLs. The ANNIS database is now at https://annis.copticscriptorium.org/annis/scriptorium Our Sahidic Coptic natural language processing tools are at https://tools.copticscriptorium.org/coptic-nlp Our GitDox annotation tool is at https://tools.copticscriptorium.org/gitdox/scriptorium The Coptic Dictionary online is still at https://coptic-dictionary.org, and […]
After our recent server outage, we’ve been re-installing our tools and software. Some of our services are now available at new URLs. The ANNIS database is now at https://annis.copticscriptorium.org/annis/scriptorium Our Sahidic Coptic natural language processing tools are at https://tools.copticscriptorium.org/coptic-nlp Our GitDox annotation tool is at https://tools.copticscriptorium.org/gitdox/scriptorium The Coptic Dictionary online is still at https://coptic-dictionary.org, and […]
Thank you to Amir and the staff at Georgetown University. Most of our public applications, such as the ANNIS database and the Coptic Dictionary Online, are back in service.
We are sorry to report that the server that hosts the Coptic Dictionary Online and Coptic Scriptorium’s ANNIS database are down. (Likewise some of the NLP tools and internal tools like GitDox are down.) We are working on fixing the problem, but for now we do not have a timeline for when they will be […]
We are sorry to report that the server that hosts the Coptic Dictionary Online and Coptic Scriptorium’s ANNIS database are down. (Likewise some of the NLP tools and internal tools like GitDox are down.) We are working on fixing the problem, but for now we do not have a timeline for when they will be […]
The opening lines of Pistis Sophia It is our pleasure to announce release 4.3.0 of Coptic Scriptorium corpora, which currently cover over 1,175,000 tokens of searchable, linguistically analyzed Coptic data from dozens of ancient Coptic works. New in this release: The History of Eustathius and Theopiste (hagiography, annotations by Lance Martin) Pistis Sophia, book 1 […]
Digital Humanities, Scriptorium
Example of research using the online Coptic Dictionary: standalone G Thomas transcription
Martijn Linssen, an independent researcher, has been working on the Gospel of Thomas for some time and recently published a stand-alone “interactive Coptic-English translation” of the Gospel of Thomas on his Academia.edu site. The Coptic is linked to entries in the online Coptic Dictionary! We invite you to check it out! We are always excited […]
It is our pleasure to announce the latest data release from Coptic Scriptorium, version 4.2.0. This release contains both new Coptic material and additions to older datasets, as well as expanding our entity annotations and named-entity linking to all of our data, including the semi-automatically annotated Old Testament. The also means automatic updates to all of our interfaces, […]
We are pleased to announce the latest release of data from Coptic Scriptorium, version 4.1.0. The new release adds new Coptic texts and annotation additions, underscored by the application of named and non-named entity annotation to our New Testament corpus. In total, we released approximately 40,000 tokens of manually edited text in 17 documents from […]
The “Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae” project (“Strukturen und Transformationen des Wortschatzes der ägyptischen Sprache”, BBAW), the “Database and Dictionary of Greek Loanwords in Coptic” (DDGLC, Freie Universität Berlin), and “Coptic Scriptorium: Digital Research in Coptic Language and Literature” are pleased to announce the latest release of the “Comprehensive Coptic Lexicon”: Version 1.2. The raw data can […]
Place name index on data.copticscriptorium.org It is our great pleasure to announce the latest release of data from Coptic Scriptorium, version 4.0.0. This release contains both new Coptic material and extensive additions to our suite of tools and annotations, focusing on the addition of support for entity annotation and named-entity linking across our new and […]