[Histling-l] Launch of "VedaWeb" - a web-based, open-access platform for linguistic research on Old Indic texts

[Uta Reinöhl]

Yes, we have a corpus of Vedic prose ready-ish which is glossed as well
as annotated based on the GRAID (grammatical relations and animacy in
discourse) conventions developed by Geoff Haig and Stefan Schnell. This
primarily involves the annotation of arguments, adjuncts, their animacy
values, plus adds some information on clause structure. And we have
added several special annotations for the myriad roles that participles
take on in Sanskrit.

We are hoping to add our prose corpus soon to VedaWeb - Although I can't
say at this point when that will be exactly. We are also planning to add
the prose corpus to the Language Archive Cologne by early 2021. I will
send an update on this when the day has come.

More generally, we are planning to develop VedaWeb in such a way that
new annotations of any nature (morphological, syntactic, metric,
information-structural ...) can be quite flexibly added to texts.

For reference: The prose corpus was put together in this project here:
https://sfb1252.uni-koeln.de/en/research-projects/b03-agent-prominence-and-the-diachrony-of-predication-in-indo-aryan

Uta

Am 29/10/2020 um 17:38 schrieb Peter Hook:
> Any hope of syntactic tagging?
>
> Peter Hook
>
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 11:49 AM Uta Reinöhl <uta.reinoehl at web.de
> <mailto:uta.reinoehl at web.de>> wrote:
>
>     Dear colleagues,
>
>     We are pleased to announce the launch of VedaWeb - a web-based,
>     open-access platform that facilitates linguistic research on Old Indic
>     texts, funded by the German Research Foundation.
>
>     https://vedaweb.uni-koeln.de/
>
>     The Rigveda is made available in a digitally accessible as well as
>     morphologically and metrically annotated form, searchable for
>     lexicographic and corpus-linguistic criteria. It is linked to the
>     dictionaries available at Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries
>     via the
>     C-SALT APIs for Sanskrit Dictionaries. The morphological annotation of
>     the Rig-Veda was carried out at the Universität Zürich (UZH) and made
>     available for the project, where information was added and consistency
>     checks were carried out. The source code of the VedaWeb platform
>     application in it's current state is open-sourced via a public GitHub
>     repository. Future versions of the platform are planned to encompass
>     further Old Indic texts, recordings of recitations, and allow users to
>     add data to the platform.
>
>     VedaWeb is part of the Cologne South Asian Languages and Texts
>     (C-SALT),
>     a collection of several digital humanities projects hosted and
>     developed
>     at the University of Cologne. Take a look!
>
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