The Diorisis Ancient Greek Corpus is a collection of 820 texts mostly sourced from the Perseus
Digital Library and other free online libraries. The texts are lemmatized and annotated with possible morphological analyses.
Diorisis Search enables researchers with no specific IT training to search these materials and export the results of their searches as Excel files. Queries can be
formulated using a syntax based on natural language (e.g. 'the exact form μετὰ followed by a form of the lemma οὗτος with the following morphological features: [acc] within 3 tokens after the first one') and can be run on any combination of texts.
This resource may help teachers of Greek at all levels as well as researchers. One may use it to find examples to include in teaching materials, compile concordances,
discover loci similes, etc.
The automatic annotation of the Corpus is pretty accurate, but of course it is not perfect. The app has a built-in system to report errors to me (as one of the maintainers
of the Diorisis Ancient Greek Corpus), so that corrected texts may be (a) included in a new version of the corpus (1.x) and possibly (b) used to retrain the annotating algorithm and produce a whole new version of the corpus (2.x).
The app itself is at beta-testing stage. Alpha-testing has been relatively limited, especially for the Windows version. For this reason, I have decided to release
the app as a fully-functional demo at this stage. The demo is bundled with — and
limited to — four texts (the Iliad, Herodotus, Lysias 1, and Oedipus
Rex).
I would be extremely grateful if those who are interested in this tool would be so kind as to try the demo and let me know if it works at all and if anything went
wrong. Feedback on functionality and usability will also be extremely welcome!
If I receive enough positive feedback, I'll release the full version ASAP!