Unpacking the Layers: Exploring the Intersections of Text, Tradition, and Technology
Chair: Clavert, Frédéric

An Interactive Visualization of Recurring Microforms Across Various Hebrew Works and their Witnesses

Pöckelmann, Marcus; Damm, Alexandra; Rebiger, Bill

Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany

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The Hebrew treatise Keter Shem Ṭov can be seen as a set of microforms configured differently within the manuscript evidence. These microforms are also found as components of various other works. Here, we present a distant-reading visualization capable of showing recurring microforms in different witnesses and across different works simultaneously.


The Ajax Multi-Commentary: a Digital Platform for the Comparative Analysis of Classical Commentaries

Pletcher, Charles (1); Najem-Meyer, Sven (2); Romanello, Matteo (1)

1: University of Lausanne, Switzerland; 2: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Switzerland

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In this paper, we present the Ajax Multi-Commentary, a new platform that provides access to modern digitized commentaries on Sophocles’ Ajax, and speeds up the work of studying and comparing commentary glosses. Its creation was enabled by a processing pipeline which makes our approach scalable to other commentaries.


Digital Developments for Dialects in Coptic

Zeldes, Amir (1); Schroeder, Caroline T (2); Wagner, Nicholas (3,2); Bremer-McCollum, Lydia (2); Takla, Hany (4)

1: Georgetown University, United States of America; 2: University of Oklahoma, United States of America; 3: Duke University, United States of America; 4: St. Shenouda Society

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This paper presents a suite of NLP tools and a pilot corpus of annotated texts for the Bohairic dialect of Coptic language and literature. This work expands digital, computational, open access resources beyond the classical dialect of this Egyptian language, which is important to scholars and the heritage community.