King's College London

The project, led by Dr Barbara McGillivray, Lecturer in Digital Humanities and Cultural Computation in the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s and group lead of the Computational Humanities Research group, aims to revolutionise how we study word meanings in historical languages.

By developing advanced computational methods, the project will automate the process of annotating Latin texts with meaning information, enabling large-scale analysis of how word meanings have evolved over 2000 years.

COALA will establish new methods for analysing ancient languages by providing large-scale quantitative data on semantics in Latin, a language with one of the longest recorded histories and an exceptionally extensive collection of digitised texts.