TLG's timeline, a place to collect information about TLG events
Created by tlg on Feb 28, 2009
Last updated: 12/14/11 at 02:49 PM
A talk by Professor Stratis Papaioannou, Brown University
Automatic Lemmatiser recognition exceeds 96% of all word forms.
The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) announces the release of a new online version of Liddell-Scott-Jones (LSJ), the premier lexicon for classical Greek. The TLG version represents five years of intensive work to produce a fully edited and searchable version of LSJ with links to the TLG corpus. Liddell-Scott-Jones (known as LSJ or Liddell-Scott) is the standard lexicographical resource for Classical Greek. LSJ was first published in 1843 by Oxford Clarendon Press edited by Henry George Liddell and Robert Scott and based on earlier lexicographical work by Schneider and Passow. It was subsequently revised 8 times. The 8th edition (1897) was the last edition published during Liddell's lifetime. Two abridged editions (the "little Liddell" and intermediate LSJ (or "middle Liddell") were also published by Oxford in 1843 and 1889 respectively). The modern reader can greatly benefit from reading the fascinating story of the creation of LSJ in the Preface of the volume.
Digitization, markup and correction of LSJ proved to be far more time consuming and demanding from a scholarly point of view than we anticipated, hence the entire project took five years to complete. The effort began by extracting identifiable sections of the text, such as headwords and meanings, that we could proofread using TLG correction software or by collating multiple digital versions. This approach was helpful but not entirely effective. Ultimately, the bulk of editing required a human eye. The final project contains a number of enhancements compared to the printed version. A number of lower case or ambigious entries have been converted to upper case and a large number of typographical errors have been corrected. A list of Corrigenda will be posted soon. Sub-entries in the printed edition marked with hyphens, have been expanded and treated as headwords. Greek words (both headwords and Greek inside entries), and English definitions can be searched and LSJ citations are linked to the TLG updated editions (when possible). Nishad Prakash worked tirelessly to create an attractive as well as user friendly interface.
http://www.tlg.uci.edu/lsj/about.php
Fifty seven new texts from twenty one authors, drawn from a variety of historical periods have been added to the TLG collection. The Periplous Maris Erythraei and Aristophanes' plays have been updated with new editions. As usual, the earlier editions can still be browsed and searched via the Abridged TLG. The Byzantine collection now includes Michael Psellus' Περὶ τραγῳδίας Theodore Prodromus' Tetrasticha and a large number of new hagiographical works. From the later periods, F. Scoufos' Ὁ Γραμματοφόρος and Leo Allatius' Hellas are among the new additions.
http://www.tlg.uci.edu/authors/post_tlg_e.php
Sixteen (16) new texts added to the corpus. Additions include Philodemus, De Ira, the Hexabiblos, K. Harmenopoulos' 14th century law collection, two Byzantine novels (Belthandrus and Chrysantza, Libistrus and Rhodamne), and several lamentations for the fall of Constantinople.
http://www.tlg.uci.edu/authors/post_tlg_e.php
Automatic Lemmatiser recognition exceeds 95% of all word forms.
Twenty four (24) new texts were added to the corpus. Additions include new works by Michael Psellus and Joannes Tzetzes, several vernacular works (Libistrus and Rhodamne, Bellum Troianum and Historia Belisarii, Georgius Chortatzes' Cretan play, Erofile) and updated editions of Moeris' Lexicon, Cyril's Epistulae Paschales and Eudocia Augusta's Homerocentones. Automatic recognition in the lemmatized corpus is now up to 95% accounting for 99.86% of all word instances. 300 lemmata from DGE missing from the other lexica have been added and disambiguation of forms has improved.
A conference to Celebrate the 37th anniversary of the Project
http://www.tlg.uci.edu/2009conference
Automatic Lemmatiser recognition exceeds 94% of all word forms.
The TLG was one of the 12 case studies analyzed in the Ithaca report as an example of sustainibility.
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/07/15/ithaka
The TLG was featured in the main UCI page in an article entitled "Greek Classics go Digital."
http://www.uci.edu/uci/features/feature_tlg_090318.php
Berkeley Place was designated as the Law School building so the TLG had to move to a new location after 18 years. The new office is located on the second floor of the University Tower, the tall building in the middle of the University Center.
Automatic Lemmatiser recognition exceeds 92% of all word forms.
Automatic Lemmatiser recognition exceeds 90% of all word forms.
The TLG began work on lemmatizing the Greek corpus in early 2003. This new feature allows users to search for the dictionary form of a word instead of a simple string.
Automatic Lemmatiser recognition exceeds 85% of all word forms.
From Papyrus to Digital: UCI's Thesaurus of Ancient Greek Texts was the theme of the 2004 Exhibit of the UCI Libraries, curated by TLG Director, Maria Pantelia.
http://www.lib.uci.edu/libraries/exhibits/tlg/index.php
Automatic recognition exceeds 80% of all word forms.
Between March 2003 and October 2004, the TLG worked with the Unicode Technical Committee (UTC) to encode all characters needed for the representation of Greek texts into the Unicode Standard. The TLG submitted 14 proposals documenting 200 characters that are now part of the Unicode Standard.
http://repositories.cdlib.org/tlg/unicode/
The TLG has just received an Enterprise 450 server donated by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Cindy Moore (B.S. M.S in Computer Science) joined the TLG to assume some of Nick Nicholas' responsibilities. Cindy has been responsible for the text search mechanism and browsing interface.
Richard Peevers (Ph.D. candidate, University of Birmingham) joined the TLG to oversee text digitization. Richard was also instrumental in collecting the information necessary for the TLG proposals to Unicode.
The Online TLG was released to subscribing institutions with its own browser-based search engine.
TLG E used 607 MB and contained 6625 works associated with 1823 authors or work collections. It also contained 186 new works of authors already in CD ROM D. All texts in this disk had undergone extensive checking and proofreading using the new correction software developed by the TLG which replaced Ibycus.
In September 1999, Ibycus was disconnected and replaced by a new Unix based system. Migration was a lengthy and painful process that lasted over 6 months. All texts had to be downloaded (one at a time) using a 2200 baud modem. The Canon file containing all bibliographical information collected over time was too large too download and had to be broken into pieces. Even when the Canon was extracted, all formatting was lost and had to be re-entered manually. More than 15,000 bibliographical records were proofread over a period of six months.
In 1999 the TLG was awarded registration for its logo. The TLG logo was the first UCI Registered Trademark. Thesaurus Linguae Graecae® and the acronym TLG® were also registered in 2002.
Nishad Prakash joined the TLG as an information technology specialist in April 1999. Nishad came to us with a degree in Classics and Computer Science from Ohio Wesleyan.
Nick Nicholas (Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Melbourne, Australia) joined the TLG. Nick brought with him a great deal of expertise in Linguistics, Greek, dialectology and information technology.
Maria Pantelia (Ph.D. the Ohio State University) joined UC Irvine as Professor of Classics with 50% release to direct the TLG. Prior to coming to UCI, Maria Pantelia was an Associate Professor of Classics at the University of New Hampshire. Founding director, Ted Brunner, who retired from the University in 1994, was recalled part-time to help his successor ease into her new duties.
After 28 years of service to the University of California, TLG Founding Director Theodore Brunner, retired from his academic position. After a two-month lacuna he was recalled for a limited term on a half-time basis to recruit his successor. Luci Berkowitz and Karl Squitier also retired around the same time.
TLG D contained 4305 works attributed to 831 authors or work collections with a raw word count of 57 million words.
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded the TLG a Challenge Grant designed to provide the project with long range financial security through a permanent endowment.
Berkeley Place
The third edition of the TLG Canon of Authors and Works was published by Oxford University Press.
The TLG became a Special Research Project under the purview of the UC Irvine Office of Research and Graduate Studies.
In 1985 David W. Packard and William Johnson co-founded a company and developed the Ibycus Scholarly Personal Computer (PSC), the first computer to allow the editing, search, and retrieval of classical texts in a fully integrated desktop package. Designed before the introduction of the Apple Macintosh, this personal computer combined multi-lingual word processing with a high-speed, CD ROM-based delivery system for large text data banks such as the TLG Greek corpus. David Packard (assisted by William Johnson and Wilkins Poe) also developed the indices and other subsystems which permitted rapid and discerning selection and retrieval of TLG texts on CD ROM. CD ROM A contained 27 million words and was the first CD ROM that did not contain music.
David W. packard provides the hardware and software to process the Greek texts on an HP-1000.
TLG texts were made available to scholars as early as 1976.
Digitization of texts begins. Texts are shipped to Korea, and later to the Philippines. As of the late 1980s the texts are digitized in China where typists, ignorant of Greek or English, enter the Greek characters in Beta Code which can be converted into Unicode or other types of Greek fonts.
The TLG Planning conference was held on OCt. 30, 1972. It was attended by a number of scholars from Europe and the US and members of the University of California, including UC Irvine's first Chancellor, Daniel G. Aldrich (seen in this photo sitting by the window). In the photo also, TLG founding director, Theodore Brunner, Peter Colaclides, Bruno Snell and other conference participants,
Marianne MacDonald motivated by her dissertation research approached the University and offered the financial support necessary in order to establish the Project.
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