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Ramses goes Online
An annotated corpus of Late Egyptian texts
in interaction with the Egyptological community
Stéphane Polis (F.R.S.-FNRS – ULg) Serge Rosmorduc (CNAM)
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Outline of the talk
n Background information about the Ramses Project
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ULg
(Late Egyptian philology and
linguistics)
Outline of the talk
n Background information about the Ramses Project
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Outline of the talk
n Background information about the Ramses Project
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ULg
(Late Egyptian philology and
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ULg
(Late Egyptian philology and
linguistics)
Outline of the talk
n Background information about the Ramses Project n Ramses Online
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ULg
(Late Egyptian philology and
linguistics)
Outline of the talk
n Background information about the Ramses Project n Ramses Online 6 Community of egyptologists, linguists, students, etc.
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ULg
(Late Egyptian philology and
linguistics)
Outline of the talk
n Background information about the Ramses Project n Ramses Online 7 Community of egyptologists, linguists, students, etc.
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Outline of the talk
n Background information about the Ramses Project n Ramses Online
n Responsive website based on Bootstrap
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Outline of the talk
n Background information about the Ramses Project n Ramses Online
n Responsive website based on Bootstrap
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Outline of the talk
n Background information about the Ramses Project n Ramses Online
n Responsive website based on Bootstrap
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Outline of the talk
n Background information about the Ramses Project n Ramses Online
n Responsive website based on Bootstrap
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Outline of the talk
n Background information about the Ramses Project n Ramses Online
n Responsive website based on Bootstrap
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Outline of the talk
n Background information about the Ramses Project n Ramses Online
n Responsive website based on Bootstrap
n With powerful searching capabilities
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Outline of the talk
n Background information about the Ramses Project n Ramses Online
n Responsive website based on Bootstrap
n With powerful searching capabilities
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Outline of the talk
n Background information about the Ramses Project n Ramses Online
n Responsive website based on Bootstrap
n With powerful searching capabilities
n In interaction with its users
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Outline of the talk
n Background information about the Ramses Project n Ramses Online
n Responsive website based on Bootstrap
n With powerful searching capabilities
n In interaction with its users
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Outline of the talk
n Background information about the Ramses Project n Ramses Online
n Responsive website based on Bootstrap
n With powerful searching capabilities
n In interaction with its users
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Outline of the talk
n Background information about the Ramses Project n Ramses Online
n Responsive website based on Bootstrap
n With powerful searching capabilities
n In interaction with its users
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Outline of the talk
n Background information about the Ramses Project n Ramses Online
n Responsive website based on Bootstrap
n With powerful searching capabilities
n In interaction with its users
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Outline of the talk
n Background information about the Ramses Project n Ramses Online 20 Community of egyptologists, linguists, students, etc.
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Outline of the talk
n Background information about the Ramses Project n Ramses Online 21 Community of egyptologists, linguists, students, etc.
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Outline of the talk
n Background information about the Ramses Project n Ramses Online
n Forthcoming developments
n Ramses Online
n Ramses Project
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The Ramses Project
Background information+
The Ramses Project
History
n July 2006
n « Informatique & Égyptologie » (Oxford)
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The Ramses Project
History
n July 2006
n « Informatique & Égyptologie » (Oxford)
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The Ramses Project
Goal
n Build a richly annotated corpus of Late Egyptian texts n Useful both for philologists and linguists
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The Ramses Project
JAVA software (MySQL – texts stored in XML)
n LexiconEditor n TextEditor
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The Ramses Project
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The Ramses Project
What kind of data?
n Hieroglyphic spellings
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The Ramses Project
What kind of data?
n Hieroglyphic spellings
n Lemmatization and morphological annotation
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The Ramses Project
What kind of data?
n Hieroglyphic spellings
n Lemmatization and morphological annotation n Ecdotic descriptors
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The Ramses Project
History
n 2007
n Founding of the ULg (« non-FRIA », 1st PhD student)
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The Ramses Project
History
n 2008-2010
n Founding of the FRFC (2nd PhD student)
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The Ramses Project
History
n 2008-2010
n Founding of the FRFC (2nd PhD student)
n First presentation of the Project at the ICE in Rhodos
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The Ramses Project
History
n 2008-2013
n ARC Project (3rd et 4th PhD student + students + post-docs)
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The Ramses Project
History
n 2008-2013
n ARC Project (3rd et 4th PhD student + students + post-docs)
n F.R.S.-FNRS scholarships
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The Ramses Project
History
n 2008-2013
n ARC Project (3rd et 4th PhD student + students + post-docs)
n F.R.S.-FNRS scholarships
n Collaborators
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The Ramses Project
History
n 2011-2015
n F.R.S.-FNRS and ULg scholarships
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The Ramses Project
History
n 2011-2015
n F.R.S.-FNRS and ULg scholarships
n Invited professors
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The Ramses Project
The corpus
n Number of texts 40 0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 3000 3500 4000 4500 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014+
The Ramses Project
The corpus
n Number of occurrences 41 0 100000 200000 300000 400000 500000 600000 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014+
The Ramses Project
The corpus
n Hieratic texts 42 3753 82% 823 18% Annotated To do 13 609 210 241 192 70 306 39 2052 21 5 3 5 10 5 41 11 720 23 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% Love songs Letters Oracular documents Judicial texts Teachings & Miscellanies Literary - Tales, etc. Literary - Hymns, eulogies, etc. Abnormal Hieratic Administrative texts Magical & medical textsAnnotated To do
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Ramses Online
An overview+
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Simple queries
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Complex queries
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Look for + noun + some space + nty + some space + Hr (Present I)
+ infinitive of a verb with the sequence of signs pA/tA/nA
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Interaction with the users
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Ramses Online (
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Interaction with the users
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Ramses Online (
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Interaction with the users
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Interaction with the users
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Interaction with the users
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Interaction with the users
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Interaction with the users
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Interaction with the users
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Interaction with the users
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Interaction with the users
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Interaction with the users
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Forthcoming developments
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The future of Ramses Online
n Improved searching facilities: more searchable annotations
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The future of Ramses Online
n Improved searching facilities: more searchable annotations
n Richer display (hide some parts, options to sort the results?)
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The future of Ramses Online
n Improved searching facilities: more searchable annotations
n Richer display (hide some parts, options to sort the results?)
n More corpora, and search on sub-corpus
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The future of Ramses Online
n Improved searching facilities: more searchable annotations
n Richer display (hide some parts, options to sort the results?)
n More corpora, and search on sub-corpus
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Improvement of text meta-data
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The future of Ramses Online:
Meta-data
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Harmonization with the
TLA
to share metadata whenever
possible (resp. Vincent Razanajao)
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Data about
n Document: an object or a monument
n Text: an abstract vision of a text content
n Witness: an actualization of a text on a monument n
Type of metadata
n Thesaurus based, multilingual, with possible inheritance
n Date (will be an interval), geographic origin
n Language, writing support, text type…
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Available in search result and to build search corpora
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The future of the Ramses Project
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Editing history supported through
event sourcing
n Next versions will allow Ramses staff to improve their editing process;
n Possibility to quote the database at a precise moment in time
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The future of the Ramses Project
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Editing history supported through
event sourcing
n Next versions will allow Ramses staff to improve their editing process;
n Possibility to quote the database at a precise moment in time n
… then: possibility to manage more than one level of
annotations (Ramses SyntaxEditor; see Polis & Rosmorduc
2013); enhanced possibilities of collaborations
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The future of the Ramses Project
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Editing history supported through
event sourcing
n Next versions will allow Ramses staff to improve their editing process;
n Possibility to quote the database at a precise moment in time n
… then: possibility to manage more than one level of
annotations (Ramses SyntaxEditor; see Polis & Rosmorduc
2013); enhanced possibilities of collaborations
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