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Latin Represented Speech (LaReS): Linking LiLa and the DICES Database

Summary

DICES is an open database that records direct speeches in Greek and Latin epic poetry. For each speech it stores metadata such as line spans, speaker and addressee, but it links to texts only through CTS-URNs. Its notion of "direct speech" is also loosely defined, and it is limited to one genre. The paper presents a new resource called LaReS (Latin Represented Speech), built on Linked Open Data principles, which ties DICES records to individual tokens in corpora of the LiLa Knowledge Base for Latin. The author first drafts a conceptual model that treats the textual layer (stretches of text) separately from the narratological layer (speech as a narrative event). The textual layer draws on CIDOC CRM and the narratological layer on DOLCE+DnS. The model is then applied to the passages found in both resources. The current release covers 341 speeches from Virgil's Aeneid. Linking DICES metadata, such as speaker gender, with LiLa's lexical and morphological data makes new queries possible, for example lexicon-based sentiment analysis of speeches. The design can also be extended to other genres.

Key points

  • DICES currently contains 4,689 direct-speech instances from 27 authors and 52 works (32 Greek, 20 Latin), with 1,915 passages from Latin works, 2,236 character instances and 997 characters.
  • LiLa links 544 Latin works, including LASLA's Opera Latina, around a Lemma Bank of more than 230,000 canonical forms. It models lexica with Ontolex-Lemon and corpora with POWLA.
  • Only two DICES poems are present in LiLa: the Aeneid and Lucan's Pharsalia. Together they account for 442 speeches and 154 character instances.
  • LaReS currently links 36,782 LiLa tokens to 341 Aeneid speech units derived from DICES.
  • The modeling keeps text and narrative separate. CIDOC CRM and DOLCE+DnS supply the core concepts, aiming for better interoperability than DICES's tags and speech-type labels.

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Fields: Linguistics & languages · Natural language processing

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The paper itself, not this page. BibTeX from the library's record of the work. DOI 10.63317/4md3uuk73kra

@inproceedings{mambrini2026latin,
  title = {{Latin Represented Speech (LaReS): Linking LiLa and the DICES Database}},
  author = {Mambrini, Francesco},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of 10th Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics (LDL-2026)},
  year = {2026},
  doi = {10.63317/4md3uuk73kra},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.63317/4md3uuk73kra}
}

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