Minoan Linguistic Resources: The Linear A Digital Corpus

Tommaso PETROLITO, Ruggero PETROLITO, Francesco PERONO CACCIAFOCO*, Grégoire WINTERSTEIN

*Corresponding author for this work

Research output: Chapter in Book or Report/Conference proceedingConference Proceedingpeer-review

3 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

This paper describes the Linear A/Minoan digital corpus and the approaches we applied to develop it. We aim to set up a suitable study resource for Linear A and Minoan. Firstly we start by introducing Linear A and Minoan in order to make it clear why we should develop a digital marked up corpus of the existing Linear A transcriptions. Secondly we list and describe some of the existing resources about Linear A: Linear A documents (seals, statuettes, vessels etc.), the traditional encoding systems (standard code numbers referring to distinct symbols), a Linear A font, and the newest (released on June 16th 2014) Unicode Standard Characters set for Linear A. Thirdly we explain our choice concerning the data format: why we decided to digitize the Linear A resources; why we decided to convert all the transcriptions in standard Unicode characters; why we decided to use an XML format; why we decided to implement the TEI-EpiDoc DTD. Lastly we describe: the developing process (from the data collection to the issues we faced and the solving strategies); a new font we developed (synchronized with the Unicode Characters Set) in order to make the data readable even on systems that are not updated. Finally, we discuss the corpus we developed in a Cultural Heritage preservation perspective and suggest some future works. c 2015 Association for Computational Linguistics and The Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing. 

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLaTeCH 2015 - Proceedings of the 9th SIGHUM Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities
EditorsKalliopi A. Zervanou, Marieke van Erp, Beatrice Alex
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages95-104
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9781941643631
Publication statusPublished - Jul 2015
Event9th SIGHUM Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities, LaTeCH 2015 - Beijing, China
Duration: 30 Jul 2015 → …

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Volume2015-text
ISSN (Print)0736-587X

Conference

Conference9th SIGHUM Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities, LaTeCH 2015
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period30/07/15 → …

Keywords

  • Linear A
  • Language Deciphering
  • Corpus Linguistics
  • Digital Humanities
  • History of Writing

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Minoan Linguistic Resources: The Linear A Digital Corpus'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this