A First Look at the Ugaritic Poetic Text Corpus

What it is about

The EUPT project is building an open digital edition of the Ugaritic poetic texts (planned: 68 tablets, about 4,000 lines, by 2032). Each text is stored as TEI-style XML in three linked trees: an epigraphic tree of the tablet (lines, segments), a philological tree of clauses, phrases and words with lemma and morphology, and a poetological tree of stanzas, verses and cola. The trees share no strings; they point to each other through unique IDs, and the clause is the unit that links the philological and poetological layers. Uncertainty is marked as data: low-certainty words, damaged signs, surplus, deleted and corrected signs. At the time of the paper only one tablet was fully digitised.

Ideas

• I1. Keep uncertainty as data. The EUPT markup for low certainty, damage and corrections suggests that unpointed Hebrew in tools/ocrfix and the unpointed mode of tools/hbo should keep the alternative readings as tagged options instead of choosing one silently.
• I2. Put line or colon structure in its own layer. In poetry a verse line often does not match a syntactic unit, so the paper keeps poetic structure separate and links it by ID. Do the same for poetic books in the discourse layer.
• I3. Store the layers as separate trees linked by IDs, not as one merged tree. This fits the tree store design, where a token can point to its phrase, its clause and its line.

For Mova

I1 goes into tools/ocrfix and tools/hbo (unpointed mode). I2 belongs in Discourse: narrative, speech and the shape of a text (poetic structure of Psalms and Job). I3 is a design note for the world store, and a check on the ID links in prag.

Topics: Akkadian and cuneiform NLP

Cite

The paper itself, not this card. BibTeX from the library's record of the work.

@inproceedings{donicke2024first,
  title = {{A First Look at the Ugaritic Poetic Text Corpus}},
  author = {Dönicke, Tillmann and Steinberger, Clemens and Zeterberg, Max-Ferdinand and Kröll, Noah},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 22nd Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2024)},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/2024.tlt-1.3/}
}

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