A project for Latin Lexicography: 1. Automatic lemmatization and word-list

A cooperative team of researchers from various Italian universities are collaborating on a project for Latin lexicography. This article describes the linguistic work being done on the Latin language. The various problems — and their solutions — are discussed: allographs, homographs, source material and classification methods, word searching, etc. Nino Marinone taught Latin literature at the University of Turin, was professor of Classical Philology the University of Padua, and now is a permanent member of staff at Turin University where he has the chair of History of the Latin Language. His interests are both classical languages and electronic proceedings in the analysis of Latin. His publications include Berenice da Callimaco a Catullo, Roma: Edizione dell' Ateneo, 1984, 320 pp.; and Index Grammaticus (with V. Lomanto), 3 vols., Hildesheim: Olms — Weidmann, 1990.