...κοὐδὲν δεινότερον τῆς γραμματικῆς (and nothing awesomer than language)

Getting to campus: from O'Hare and Midway airports; and from downtown sticky icon

From O'Hare:

Reimbursable options:

[the Humanities Division will reimburse visitors to a maximum of $350 if traveling within North America or $650 if travelling from Europe; if there is money left, you can be reimbursed for certain ground transportation - as listed here]

-Take the Omega shuttle. Get off at the stop for the Quadrangle Club (faculty club, at 57th and University).

This is the stop closest to the main quadrangle. Get a receipt; get one whole dollar off as a student.

Graduate visits schedule sticky icon

Welcome to Classics at Chicago!

Here is the schedule for this year's prospective student days:

MONDAY: Arrive on campus. (Possible faculty appointments today for early arrivals)

If arriving in Hyde Park by 4:30, please come to the Classics Department:

Second floor of the Classics building. (http://maps.uchicago.edu/mainquad/classics.html)

First try Classics 22B, Kathy Fox's office. She will be in till 3 p.m.

Between 3 and 4:30, please find the Classics lounge: down the hall, room 25G.

Classical PhiloLogic sticky icon

We have launched morphological searching in Greek and Latin texts in our local load of the Perseus corpus. Richard Whaling and I presented the project for the American Library Association yesterday. Slides are here.

You can also look at our giant Digital Humanities poster.

Go directly to the good stuff: Perseus under PhiloLogic.

Digital Humanities 2009: Implementing Greek Morphology

In this presentation at the Digital Humanities 2009 Conference we discussed the nuts and bolts of our implementation of Greek morphology in a five-million word corpus, that of the Perseus Greek texts. Many disparate elements, and the efforts of many different people have come together in this project. Dik & Whaling (2008) describe how initial data was gathered from multiple sources; the current paper describes what went into the final product. Full abstract below; if you do not have a pdf reading plugin, follow this link.

Recent Work: Hard Cover

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2008: Text mining Greek drama

Here is the abstract for a paper on text mining Greek drama, also presented at DH2008: Full abstract below.

2008:Bootstrapping Morphology

From the abstracts of Digital Humanities 2008, an overview of the year's big project, as it was starting. The paper was presented in June 2008. A link for the paper if your browser does not show it below.