The Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium series is a collection launched in 1903 by the French orientalist Jean-Baptiste Chabot (1860-1948). This collection brings together texts written or transmitted in the languages of Eastern Christianity, in conjunction with their translations. Each language is subject to a sub-collection : Scriptores Aethiopici, Scriptores Arabici, Scriptores Armeniaci, Scriptores Coptici, Scriptores Iberici and Scriptores Syri. A Subsidia sub-collection provides studies in the same research field. In 2015, the series counted more than 600 titles.
The lecture will illustrate the “transhumance” of these texts, from the paper version to the demo-version of an interface that makes these texts searchable online. The focus will be on tools used for the lexical processing of the texts, including the questions of lemmatization and lexical disambiguation for sources transmitted in Greek or in one of the languages of Eastern Christianity, with samples from Greek, Armenian, Coptic, and... Ethiopic.
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