A study of keywords in Euripides' Heracles and the Treebank construction

• Grant number: 15/00266-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: June 01, 2015
• End date: January 31, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Linguistics - Applied Linguistics
• Agreement: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: Anise de Abreu Goncalves D'Orange Ferreira
• Grantee: Michel Ferreira dos Reis
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Letras (FCL). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Araraquara. Araraquara , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This research is inserted on interface of computational linguistics, corpus linguistics and work with corpora of historical texts, and it has the purpose to exam the keywords and their occurrences in context, purposing an analysis by means of ancient Greek dependency treebank annotations, according to guidelines of Crane & Bamman (2009) and Celano (2014). For that, some softwares will be used as AntConc, Greek Vocabulary Tool, from Perseus platform, and the treebank editor, Arethusa, from Perseids platform. This work aims to provide subsidies to elaboration of teaching materials based on keywords, because they reveal the more significative terms of the corpus and the syntactical annotation, the essential elements for reading. (AU)