Amir Zeldes, Caroline Schroeder & Lance Martin, Leveraging non-named entities in Coptic antiquity

Digital Classicist London Seminar (full programme: ) Friday September 10, 2021, 17:00 (UK time/UTC 1) Amir Zeldes (Georgetown), Caroline Schroeder (Oklahoma), Lance Martin (CUA) Leveraging non-named entities in Coptic antiquity In this paper we present the latest work on large scale, semi-automatic and quantitative analysis of the body of entities mentioned in texts from Coptic Antiquity. Unlike Greek and Roman materials, which have been studied extensively, digital treatment of Coptic data from the first millennium has lagged behind until recently, in part due to the smaller research community and the morphological complexity of the language, which is fusional and features agglutination, compounding and incorporation of nouns into complex verbs. We show how annotating named and non-named entities enriches Coptic corpora, including the identification of nested entities and entity linking. We will focus especially on non-named Coptic entities, which are of gr