RAGE – Roman and Greek Emotions.
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A Quantitative Approach to Emotions in Classical Philology
A joint project betweenthe Department of Computational Linguistics and
the Seminar for Classical Philology,
joining forces between classical philological and modern computational linguistic methods for the analysis of Emotions in classical Roman and Ancient Greek literary texts. The project creates emotion annotations on a collection of Latin and Ancient Greek literary texts, and establishes a database and ontology recording links to the emotion annotations on the textual instances.
By combining automatic and manual annotations of Latin and Greek literature texts we optimize the annotation process, using powerful multilingual large language models (LLMs), prompting methods and model fine-tuning.
With these resources we also aim to extend the annotations to previously uncovered texts. All annotated texts and structured resources will be made publicly available. Project members:
Dr. Jonathan Geiger, Classical Philology, Heidelberg University
PD Dr. Thomas Kuhn-Treichel, Classical Philology, Heidelberg University
Frederick Riemenschneider, M.A. Department of Computational Linguistics, Heidelberg University
Prof. Anette Frank, Department of Computational Linguistics, Heidelberg University Project funded by: Exzellenzstrategie (BMBF and MWK Baden-Württemberg)
NEWS
Recent Talks!
Frederick Riemenschneider recently presented his work on Ancient Language Processing with LLMs in a talk titled
"It's All Greek (and Latin) to Me: Multilingual Language Models and the Challenges of Digital Classics"at the Digital Humanities and Infrastructures: Tools, Archives, and Theory Workshop , held at the IIT Indore Campus.
In his talk, he explored the potential and pitfalls of employing Multilingual Language Models in the realm of Digital Humanities, with particular focus on Ancient Greek and Latin.
Frederick Riemenschneider will soon also give an invited talk at the University of Leuven: He will talk at the Computational Approaches to Ancient Greek and Latin Workshop," His presentation, titled
"Ira ex machina: Multilingual Models and Emotion Analysis in Classical Texts"will explore the potential and challenges of multilingual approaches to Ancient Greek and Latin. He will share recent developments from our RAGE (Roman and Greek Emotions) Project, demonstrating how this research enables scholars to conduct large-scale, fine-grained analysis of emotions in Classical texts.
