A Hackathon for Classical Tibetan

Abstract

We describe the course of a hackathon dedicated to the development of linguistic tools for Tibetan Buddhist studies. Over a period of five days, a group of seventeen scholars, scientists, and students developed and compared algorithms for intertextual alignment and text classification, along with some basic language tools, including a stemmer and word segmenter.

Keywords

• tibetan
• buddhist studies
• hackathon
• stemming
• segmentation
• intertextual alignment
• text classification
• [ info.info-cl ] computer science [cs]/computation and language [cs.cl]
• [ shs.langue ] humanities and social sciences/linguistics
• [ info.info-cy ] computer science [cs]/computers and society [cs.cy]