This paper presents a pilot study to automatic linguistic preprocessing of Ancient and Byzantine Greek, and morphological analysis more specifically. To this end, a novel subword-based BERT language model was trained on the basis of a varied corpus o
f Modern, Ancient and Post-classical Greek texts. Consequently, the obtained BERT embeddings were incorporated to train a fine-grained Part-of-Speech tagger for Ancient and Byzantine Greek. In addition, a corpus of Greek Epigrams was manually annotated and the resulting gold standard was used to evaluate the performance of the morphological analyser on Byzantine Greek. The experimental results show very good perplexity scores (4.9) for the BERT language model and state-of-the-art performance for the fine-grained Part-of-Speech tagger for in-domain data (treebanks containing a mixture of Classical and Medieval Greek), as well as for the newly created Byzantine Greek gold standard data set. The language models and associated code are made available for use at https://github.com/pranaydeeps/Ancient-Greek-BERT
Levant was always expressive of travelling to Egypt, through it over invaders and
conquerors alike, so we find when all authorities and successive States in Egypt taken to
extend their power and influence to the Levantine homes, whom the Fatimids,
After
Fatimids control Egypt, even started their campaigns to Levant to expand and ensure their
security and stability, and that it did not cover over Levant interior but coastline featuring
many important metropolises, Such as the cities of Sidon, Tripoli and Latakia and other
vulnerable coastal centers, And that desire to expand into the Levant and it’s coast had her
collision with the Byzantines and their wide influence at Levant and the Levantine
coastline, Both of them had felt in the security stations its observers Levant coast
guaranteed invasion again as if the internal influence any destabilization or scaling, Which
they necessitated the military clash in a lot of times, As the influence of the parties on that
coast was between highs and lows, and subject to many considerations including domestic
situation and stability enjoyed by each other.
The German Byzantine relations between 1137-1146 were
alliance relationships against Roger II King of Sicily, because in the
increasing of the influence of Roger II in Italy the influence of
German and Byzantine empires was diminished, also the Byzantine
Emperor John Komenan saw in the ambitions of Roger II a direct
threat to the interests of Byzantium in the East and the West.
