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 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). 

           (THOThttp://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. 

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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 

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"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 

 

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Meet the iClassifier team

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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

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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

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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

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Prof. Dr. Tanja Pommerening 

Universität Marburg

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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.

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Yanru Xu

Ph.D. Candidate

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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Svenja Stern 

Ph.D. Candidate

University of Mainz

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Dr. Simon Thuault

Postdoc
University of Pisa

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Arthur Lesage

Jorke Grotenhuis

Ancient Egyptian iClassifier lab members

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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

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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.

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Prof. Dr. Tanja Pommerening 

Universität Marburg

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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.

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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.

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Fernando Gael Papola

PhD Candidate

École Pratique des Hautes Études - PSL, Paris

Egyptian precipitations.

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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.

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Svenja Stern

University of Mainz

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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

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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

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The ancient Chinese iClassifier

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Prof. Zev Handel

University of Washington

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Yanru Xu

PhD Candidate

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Coordinator, Chinese Portal

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Prof. Yongsheng Chen

Ocean University of China, Qingdao

The Anatolian hieroglyphs iClassifier 

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Dr. Annick Payne

Bern University

(Planned.) Advisor for the Anatolian hieroglyphs iClassifier portal

 

iClassifier documenting graphemic classification
in modern Japanese

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So Miyagawa

Kyoto University

(Planned.) An iClassifier platform for Japanese. 

 

Classifier languages 
iClassifier 

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Prof. Colette Grinevald
Université Lyon

Advisor for classifier languages
Linguist, expert in classifier studies 

Upcoming and planned 
collaborative research: 

The Jacaltec Poptiʼ iClassifier
The Kilivila iClassifier
(Planned.) An iClassifier platform for Kilivila. Based on materials collected by Prof. Gunter Senft.

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