Search And Mining Tools with Linguistic Analysis And Mining Tools with Linguistic Analysis: domain specific search through statistical language modelling Seminar

Dr Dan Levene and Mr Martyn Harris will present ‘Samtla' which is a collaborative Digital Humanities research project between University of Southampton and Birkbeck University of London.

Samtla provides a search facility through statistical language modelling, and document comparison tools to identify both local and global patterns of language use and change over time.

Samtla is language-agnostic allowing the tools to be applied to any language corpus or collection of documents. The current implementation provides search and comparison over a corpus of Aramaic Magic Texts from Late Antiquity (AMTLA), and an English version based on the Book of Genesis, from a collection of Bibles ranging from the 13th century through to 2010.

As well as presenting the history of Samtla and a two working versions of it we hope to attract other users in the Faculty of Humanities.

Tags: aramaic, language, statistical modelling