Abstract

This article presents a novel method to determine particular syntactical attributes of Ancient Greek oratory to quantitatively compare the orators of the Classical to those of the Imperial era based on their style of writing. The study first provides a philological overview of Classical Atticism and its Imperial counterpart and argues that the latter is the product of creative mimēsis and not a mere reproduction of archetypes. Then the article briefly explains a node-based metric method that was developed to quantify the morphology of a syntactically annotated Treebank that led to a more thorough weighting scheme using Haar Wavelets. Wavelets were then used to capture both the linear topology of a sentence and the tree network topology of the corresponding syntactical tree. The results were subsequently processed using principal component analysis to analyze and visualize the data. The method is demonstrated using a database of syntactically annotated sentences from six Attic orators.

中文翻译：

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希腊帝国演讲中的折衷模仿：使用小波进行句法量化的拓扑度量

摘要

本文提出了一种确定古希腊演说家特定句法属性的新方法，以根据他们的写作风格对古典演说家与帝国时代演说家进行定量比较。该研究首先提供了古典 Atticism 及其帝国对应物的语言学概述，并认为后者是创造性模仿的产物而不仅仅是原型的复制。然后文章简要解释了一种基于节点的度量方法，该方法被开发用于量化语法注释的 Treebank 的形态，从而导致使用 Haar Wavelets 的更彻底的加权方案。然后使用小波来捕获句子的线性拓扑和相应句法树的树网络拓扑。随后使用主成分分析处理结果以分析和可视化数据。该方法使用来自六个阁楼演说家的句法注释句子数据库进行演示。