LiLa

The CIRCSE Research Centre hosts the project LiLa: Linking Latin. Building a Knowledge Base of Linguistic Resources for Latin.

Funded with an ERC-Consolidator Grant, the objective of LiLa was to connect and, ultimately, exploit the wealth of linguistic resources and NLP tools for Latin assembled so far, in order to bridge the gap between raw language data, NLP and knowledge descriptions, thus enabling scholars to exploit to the best the currently available resources and tools.

To address such a challenge, LiLa has incorporated the linguistic resources for Latin into the Linked Data framework, making it possible for them to be published and interlinked on the web and to interact with each other. To this aim, the project built an open-ended knowledge base for Latin by using the Linked Data paradigm to combine data from disparate linguistic resources, provide NLP web-services and include also Latin into the multilingual Linguistic Linked Open Data cloud.