iClassifier: Ongoing research projects
Our current projects are about graphemic classifiers in ancient Egyptian, Sumerian, and ancient Chinese.
The iClassifier research tool is designed to collect data of graphemic classifiers in scripts,
as well as pronounced classifiers in various modern classifier languages.
Ancient Egyptian
Egyptian lemmata are courtesy of the "Strukturen und Transformationen des Wortschatzes der ägyptischen Sprache" project, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften. The data release currently in use is accessible at: https://edoc.bbaw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2919.
Cooperations
Using the iClassifier research platform, we add classifier annotations to existing datasets created by various research projects.
Strukturen und Transformationen des Wortschatzes der ägyptischen Sprache (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig.) [Prof. Tonio Sebastian Richter, Dr. Daniel Werning, and the Leipzig team led by Prof. Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert, Dr. Peter Dils, and cooperation coordinator: Dr. Lutz Popko].
We create classifier networks for digitized texts, kindly provided by the Strukturen und Transformationen des Wortschatzes der ägyptischen Sprache project. Currently, we add classifier annotations to Papyrus Ebers, and to selected literary texts of the
Middle Kingdom and the New Kingdom. (Ongoing)
Projet Ramses (Université de Liège.) [Prof. Jean Winand, Dr. Stéphane Polis]. A satellite classifier analysis of the Ramses Project data. The hieroglyphic spellings are imported from Ramses Online (http://ramses.ulg.ac.be) and enriched with classifier analysis. (Planned)
For Ancient Egyptian, our data model is compatible with the Thot Data Model (TDM, cf. Polis & Razanajao 2016).
Our metadata annotations are based on the 'Thesauri and ontology for documenting Ancient Egyptian Resources, and follows the metadata hierarchy used by the TLA project in BTS encoding (in collaboration with Dr. Daniel Werning).
(THOT, http://thot.philo.ulg.ac.be).
Ancient Chinese
Cooperations
The Intelligent Retrieval Network Database of Chinese Characters (East China Normal University (ECNU), Shanghai.
Our data is shared under Creative Commons. CC BY-SA - 4.0 International license.
iClassifier projects
Exploring the Minds of Ancient
Egypt and Ancient China
Exploring the minds of Ancient Egypt and Ancient China —A comparative network analysis of the classifier systems of the scripts
PI Prof. Orly Goldwasser
Co-investigator, Prof. Zev Handel
ISF grant no.1704/22
"Classifying the Other: The classification of Semitic loanwords in Egyptian texts of the New Kingdom"
An iClassifier pilot project, 2017-2021.
PI Prof. Orly Goldwasser
ISF grant 735/17
Meet the iClassifier team
Prof. Orly Goldwasser
orly.goldwasser@mail.huji.ac.il
Full professor
Institute of Archaeology
and The Ancient Near East
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Homepage:
http://www.orlygoldwasser.com/
https://huji.academia.edu/orlygoldwasser
Lab Manager and Scientific Coordinator
Haleli Harel
haleli.harel@mail.huji.ac.il
Postdoctoral researcher
Institute of Archaeology and
The Ancient Near East
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Database and User Interface Developer
Dr. Dmitry Nikolaev
dsnikolaev@gmail.com
Postdoctoral researcher
Institute for Natural
Language Processing, Department Theoretical Computational Linguistics
University of Stuttgart
Homepage:
http://www.dnikolaev.com/
Dmitry is creating the database and the user interface for the project.
Current iClassifiers
Prof. Dr. Tanja Pommerening
Universität Marburg
Susana Polo Soler
Ph.D. Candidate
University of Barcelona and
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Based on data digitized and kindly provided for analysis by the "Strukturen und Transformationen des Wortschatzes der ägyptischen Sprache" project, Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig.
Yanru Xu
Ph.D. Candidate
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Svenja Stern
Ph.D. Candidate
University of Mainz
Dr. Simon Thuault
Postdoc
University of Pisa
Arthur Lesage
Jorke Grotenhuis
Ancient Egyptian iClassifier lab members
Svenja Stern
MA student
University of Mainz
Based on data digitized and kindly provided for analysis by the "Strukturen und Transformationen des Wortschatzes der ägyptischen Sprache" project, Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig.
Co-operation coordinators:
Dr. Daniel Werning
Dr. Lutz Popko
Dr. Peter Dils
iClassifier research projects
Dr. Jorke Grotenhuis
Postdoc
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Awardee of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities & Council for Higher Education Excellence Fellowship Program for International Postdoctoral Researchers.
Study of classifier variation in the Ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts.
Prof. Dr. Tanja Pommerening
Universität Marburg
Dr. Simon Thuault
Postdoc
University of Pisa
Digitizing the doctoral dissertation “Dissimilation graphique.” Studying the classification of mass and group nouns in Old Kingdom Egypt.
Susana Soler Polo
PhD Candidate
University of Barcelona
and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Classifiers in Ancient Egyptian Scripts. A Corpus-Based Analysis of a Literary Text: the Story of Sinuhe
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Arthur Lesage
PhD Candidate
Sorbonne Université
Writing on women and womanhood/femininities in Ancient Egypt: A cognitive linguistic study in Egyptian literature.
Fernando Gael Papola
PhD Candidate
École Pratique des Hautes Études - PSL, Paris
Egyptian precipitations.
Yanru Xu
PhD Candidate
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Plaks Fellowship in Traditional China field (from Department of Asian Studies, HUJI) 2022
China Scholarship Council (CSC) – Hebrew University of Jerusalem Scholarship Program (CSC-HUJI Joint Scholarship) 2020-2024
Classifiers in selected Egyptian texts, Ptahotep.
Svenja Stern
University of Mainz
Dr. Alexander Ilin-Tomich
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz
An iClassifier of the 'Persons and Names of the Middle Kingdom' database.
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The Sumerian iClassifier
Prof. Dr. Gebhard J. Selz
University of Vienna
In the first step, the project is exclusively built on information contained in the ePSD2 database. We input the normalized lemmas according to the reconstructed form as found in ePSD2. For each lemma, we enter all script forms with classifiers (including phonetic indicators). We then comment on the analysis of each script form.
Bo Zhang
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The ancient Chinese iClassifier
Prof. Zev Handel
University of Washington
Yanru Xu
PhD Candidate
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Coordinator, Chinese Portal
Prof. Yongsheng Chen
Ocean University of China, Qingdao
The Anatolian hieroglyphs iClassifier
Dr. Annick Payne
Bern University
(Planned.) Advisor for the Anatolian hieroglyphs iClassifier portal
iClassifier documenting graphemic classification
in modern Japanese
So Miyagawa
Kyoto University
(Planned.) An iClassifier platform for Japanese.
Classifier languages
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