Processing Tools for Greek and Other Languages of the Christian Middle East

Abstract

This paper presents some computer tools and linguistic resources of the GREgORI project. These developments allow automated processing of texts written in the main languages of the Christian Middel East, such as Greek, Arabic, Syriac, Armenian and Georgian. The main goal is to provide scholars with tools (lemmatized indexes and concordances) making corpus-based linguistic information available. It focuses on the questions of text processing, lemmatization, information retrieval, and bitext alignment.

Keywords

• lemmatization
• greek
• syriac
• arabic
• armenian
• georgian
• lexical tagging
• pos tagging
• concordances
• indexes
• bitext
• bilingual alignment
• translation memories
• mkalign
• [scco.ling] cognitive science/linguistics
• [shs.class] humanities and social sciences/classical studies
• [shs.litt] humanities and social sciences/literature
• [info.info-cl] computer science [cs]/computation and language [cs.cl]