Integrated Sequence Tagging for Medieval Latin Using Deep Representation Learning

Especially in the community of Digital Humanities, the automated processing of Latin texts has always been a popular research topic. In a variety of computational applications, such as text reuse detection [Franzini et al, 2015], it is desirable to annotate and augment Latin texts with useful morpho-syntactical or lexical information, such as lemmas. In this paper, we will focus on two sequence tagging tasks for medieval Latin: part-of-speech tagging and lemmatization. Given a piece of Latin text, the task of lemmatization involves assigning each word to a single dictionary headword or'lemma': a baseform label (preferably in a normalized orthography) grouping all word tokens which only differ in spelling and/or inflection [Knowles et al, 2004]. The task of lemmatization is closely related to that of part-of-speech (PoS) tagging [Jurafsky et al, 2000], in which each word in a running text should be assigned a tag indicating its part of speech or word class (e.g.