Computer linguistics in Gəʿəz studies: the GeTa application
1 October 2020
CANCELLED FOR TECHNICAL REASONS
The objective of the workshop (1-2 October 2020) was to introduce the interested students in the use of the GeTa annotation tool, developed in the course of the ERC Advanced Grant TraCES (2014-2019) in their everyday work, with the focus on manuscript cataloguing. No preliminary knowledge of XML is required.
The workshop is offered by Dr Cristina Vertan and the members of the TraCES project Dr Susanne Hummel and Dr Vitagrazia Pisani.
Up to 10 places are available; please apply to aethiopistik"AT"uni-hamburg.de by 3 August 2020. Send us an email with your name, affiliation, and background.
(The applicants to the Summer School in Ethiopian and Eritrean Manuscript Studies, 21-25 September 2020, wishing to join the training, have to check the appropriate box in their application).
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Tentative Programme
1 October
9:00-10:30 Theory
Computer linguistics and language studies
State of the art for Ethiopic
Main GeTa principles: levels of annotation
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11:00-12:30 Practice
Software adjustment (the installation guidelines shall be circulated in advance)
First steps: creating a new GeTa document; correcting orthography; tokenization
2 October
9:00-10:30 Theory
Introducing the GeTa tag set
Metadata and linking (Beta masaheft; Dillmann dictionary)
Simple search
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11:00-12:30 Practice
Annotating excercise