Published May 12, 2020 | Version v2
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Representing Etymology in the LiLa Knowledge Base of Linguistic Resources for Latin

  • 1. Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy

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In this paper we describe the process of inclusion of etymological information in a knowledge base of interoperable Latin linguistic resources developed in the context of the LiLa: Linking Latin project. Interoperability is obtained by applying the Linked Open Data principles. Particularly, an extensive collection of Latin lemmas is used to link the (distributed) resources. For the etymology, we rely on the Ontolex-lemon ontology and the lemonEty extension to model the information, while the source data are taken from a recent etymological dictionary of Latin. As a result, the collection of lemmas LiLa is built around now includes 1,465 Proto-Italic and 1,393 Proto-Indo-European reconstructed forms that are used to explain the history of 1,400 Latin words. We discuss the motivation, methodology and modeling strategies of the work, as well as its possible applications and potential future developments.

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LiLa – Linking Latin. Building a Knowledge Base of Linguistic Resources for Latin 769994
European Commission