TY  - JOUR
A1  - Chiarcos, Christian
A1  - Khait, Ilya
A1  - Pagé-Perron, Émilie
A1  - Schenk, Niko
A1  - Jayanth, Jayanth
A1  - Fäth, Christian
A1  - Steuer, Julius
A1  - Mcgrath, William
A1  - Wang, Jinyan
T1  - Annotating a low-resource language with llod technology: Sumerian morphology and syntax
T2  - Information
N2  - This paper describes work on the morphological and syntactic annotation of Sumerian cuneiform as a model for low resource languages in general. Cuneiform texts are invaluable sources for the study of history, languages, economy, and cultures of Ancient Mesopotamia and its surrounding regions. Assyriology, the discipline dedicated to their study, has vast research potential, but lacks the modern means for computational processing and analysis. Our project, Machine Translation and Automated Analysis of Cuneiform Languages, aims to fill this gap by bringing together corpus data, lexical data, linguistic annotations and object metadata. The project’s main goal is to build a pipeline for machine translation and annotation of Sumerian Ur III administrative texts. The rich and structured data is then to be made accessible in the form of (Linguistic) Linked Open Data (LLOD), which should open them to a larger research community. Our contribution is two-fold: in terms of language technology, our work represents the first attempt to develop an integrative infrastructure for the annotation of morphology and syntax on the basis of RDF technologies and LLOD resources. With respect to Assyriology, we work towards producing the first syntactically annotated corpus of Sumerian.
KW  - linked open data
KW  - linguistic linked open data
KW  - morphology
KW  - syntax
KW  - parsing
KW  - RDF
KW  - SPARQL
KW  - low-resource languages
KW  - Sumerian
KW  - Cuneiform
Y1  - 2018
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/51489
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-514893
SN  - 2078-2489
N1  - This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited
VL  - 9
IS  - 11, Art. 290
SP  - 1
EP  - 16
PB  - MDPI Publ.
CY  - Basel
ER  -