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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 […]
The writings of Shenoute form the largest corpus of early monastic texts by a single author from one of the cradles of Christian monasticism, Egypt. These manuscripts open an important window onto the development of […]
The rule fragment I’ve been working on has now been published as an article in a traditional journal, Le Muséon. Photos of the manuscript, a transcription, translation, and analysis are there.
Digital Humanities, Scriptorium
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 […]
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 […]
By Caroline T. Schroeder & Amir Zeldes Schroeder presented this paper at the annual meeting of the North American Patristics Society in Chicago, Illinois, on May 24, 2014. This post is a very minimally edited […]
Digital Humanities, Scriptorium, University of the Pacific
2 NEH Grants to support Coptic SCRIPTORIUM
The Coptic SCRIPTORIUM project is pleased to announce that we have been awarded two grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. A grant from the Office of Digital Humanities will support tools and technology […]
Republished courtesy Orientalist Today Lost Egyptian Text found in Ohio Attic 1 April 2014, Orientalist Today Columbus natives Joe and Julia Needler were shocked to learn that the “souvenirs” they discovered a decade ago in […]
Coptic SCRIPTORIUM is pleased to announce a new release of data and an update on our project. Please visit our site at coptic.pacific.edu (backup at www.carrieschroeder.com/scriptorium). We’ve released several new corpora: -two fragments of Shenoute’s […]
We’ve released some additional TEI XML files for our SCRIPTORIUM corpora at http://coptic.pacific.edu (backup site http://www.carrieschroeder.com/scriptorium). All the TEI files have been lightly annotated with linguistic annotations. The metadata has been updated to provide more […]
Digital Humanities, Scriptorium
SBL presentation on Digital Technologies to find and study biblical references in Coptic literature
The slides from my 2013 Society of Biblical Literature presentation are now available on Academia.edu and are referenced on Coptic SCRIPTORIUM’s Zotero Group Library page. Searching for Scripture: Digital Tools for Detecting and Studying the […]
The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has approved Dr. Amir Zeldes’ (Humboldt University) proposal for a young researcher group on Digital Humanities at HU Berlin, starting early next year. The project is […]