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annotations_creators:
- expert-generated
license: cc-by-sa-4.0
task_categories:
- translation
- token-classification
language:
- egy
- de
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pretty_name: Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, Demotic sentences, corpus v18, premium
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  - name: lemmatization
    dtype: string
  - name: UPOS
    dtype: string
  - name: glossing
    dtype: string
  - name: translation
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  - name: dateNotBefore
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  - name: dateNotAfter
    dtype: string
  - name: authors
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    num_examples: 13383
---
# Dataset Card for Dataset _tla-demotic-v18-premium_

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This data set contains demotic sentences in `transliteration`, with `lemmatization`, with POS `glossing` and with a German `translation`. 
The data comes from the database of the [Thesaurus Linguae Agegyptiae](https://thesaurus-linguae-aegyptiae.de), corpus version 18, and contains only fully intact, 
unambiguously readable sentences (13,383 of 31,156 sentences), adjusted for philological and editorial markup.

## Dataset Details

### Dataset Description

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- **Homepage:** https://thesaurus-linguae-aegyptiae.de.
- **Curated by:**
German Academies’ project “Strukturen und Transformationen des Wortschatzes der ägyptischen Sprache. Text- und Wissenskultur im alten Ägypten”,
Executive Editor: [Daniel A. Werning](https://www.bbaw.de/die-akademie/mitarbeiterinnen-mitarbeiter/werning-daniel).
- **Funded by:**
The Academies’ project “Strukturen und Transformationen des Wortschatzes der ägyptischen Sprache. Text- und Wissenskultur im alten Ägypten” of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig is co-financed by the German federal government and the federal states Berlin and Saxony.
The Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig is co-financed by the Saxon State government out of the State budget approved by the Saxon State Parliament.
- **Language(s) (NLP):** egy-Egyd, de-DE.
- **License:** [CC BY-SA 4.0 Int.](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/); for required attribution, see citation recommendations below.
- **Point of Contact:** [Daniel A. Werning](https://www.bbaw.de/die-akademie/mitarbeiterinnen-mitarbeiter/werning-daniel)

## Uses

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### Direct Use

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This data set may be used
- to create lemmatizers Demotic transliteration => [TLA lemma ID](https://thesaurus-linguae-aegyptiae.de/info/lemma-lists),
- to train translation models Demotic transliteration => German.

### Out-of-Scope Use

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This data set of selected intact sentences is not suitable for reconstructing entire ancient source texts. 

## Dataset

## Dataset Structure

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The dataset is not divided. Please create your own random splits.

The dataset comes as a _JSON lines_ file.

### Data Fields

#### plain_text
- `transliteration`: a `string`, Demotic transliteration, following the [_Leiden Unified Transliteration_](https://www.iae-egyptology.org/the-leiden-unified-transliteration), individual sentence elements separated by space.
- `UPOS`: a `string`, Part of Speech according to [Universal POS tag set](https://universaldependencies.org/u/pos/).
- `lemmatization`: a `string`, individual [TLA Lemma IDs](https://thesaurus-linguae-aegyptiae.de/info/lemma-lists)+"`|`"+lemma transliteration, separated by space.
- `glossing`: a `string`, individual glosses of lemmas (not of inflected forms), separated by space (for information, see the comments below).
- `translation`:  a `string`, German translation.
- `dateNotBefore`, `dateNotAfter`: two `strings` containing an integer or empty, _terminus ante quem non_ and _terminus post quem non_ for the text witness.
- `authors`: a `string`, main authors and further contributors to the sentence data set, individual items separated by `;`.

### Data instances

Example of an dataset instance:
```
{
  "transliteration": "ꞽy ꞽh pr =k",
  "lemmatization": "d338|ꞽy d4158|ḥr d1985|pr d6496|=k",
  "UPOS": "VERB ADP NOUN PRON",
  "glossing": "V PREP N.m -2sg.m",
  "translation": "Komm in dein Haus!",
  "dateNotBefore": "-75",
  "dateNotAfter": "-51",
  "authors": "Günter Vittmann;AV Altägyptisches Wörterbuch, AV Wortschatz der ägyptischen Sprache"
}
```

## Dataset Creation

### Curation Rationale

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ML projects have requested raw data from the TLA. 
At the same time, the raw data is riddled with philological markers that make it difficult for non-Egyptological users. 
This is a strictly filtered data set that only contains intact, unquestionable, fully lemmatized sentences. 

### Source Data

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For the corpus of Demotic texts in the _TLA_, browse [Demotische Textdatenbank](https://thesaurus-linguae-aegyptiae.de/object/6WFOSXHVQRGGNAG5FCM6QEXWR4) 
and see the information on the [TLA text corpus](https://thesaurus-linguae-aegyptiae.de/info/text-corpus), 
notably the [PDF overview](https://nubes.bbaw.de/s/xD7MYJrmE8xNBNt).

#### Data Collection and Processing

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This dataset contains all demotic sentences of the TLA corpus v18 (2023) that 
- show no destruction,
- have no questionable readings,
- are fully lemmatized,
- have a German translation.

#### Who are the source data producers?

AV [Altägyptisches Wörterbuch](https://www.bbaw.de/forschung/altaegyptisches-woerterbuch),
AV [Wortschatz der ägyptischen Sprache](https://www.bbaw.de/en/research/vocabulary-of-the-egyptian-language);
R. Dominik Blöse,
Friedhelm Hoffmann,
Jakob Höper,
Joachim Friedrich Quack,
Marcel Moser,
Simon D. Schweitzer,
Martin Stadler,
**Günter Vittmann**,
Daniel A. Werning.

### Annotations

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#### Annotation process

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The transliteration sometimes contains round brackets (`( )`), 
which mark phonemes added by the editor without the addition being regarded as an incorrect omission. 
For model training, the brackets, but not their content, may optionally be removed. 

#### Who are the annotators?

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Joachim Friedrich Quack (transliterations, lemmatizations, translations, dating),
Marcel Moser (transliterations, lemmatizations, translations, dating),
Simon D. Schweitzer (lemma list data, lemma POS, metadata/data curation),
Martin Stadler (transliteration, lemmatizations, translation, dating),
**Günter Vittmann** (transliterations, lemmatizations, translations, lemma list data, lemma POS, dating).
Daniel A. Werning (UPOS matching, glossing computation).

#### Personal and Sensitive Information

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No personal, sensitive, or private data.

## Bias, Risks, and Limitations

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This is not a carefully balanced data set.

Note that the lemmatization is done via lemma IDs, since the lemma transliteration contains many consonantal homonyms due to the largely vowel-less nature of Demotic writing. 

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## Citation of this dataset

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Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, Demotic sentences, corpus v18, premium <https://huggingface.co/datasets/thesaurus-linguae-aegyptiae/tla-demotic-v18-premium>, 
v1.1, 2/16/2024 
ed. by Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning on behalf of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils on behalf of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig. 

**BibTeX:**

```
@misc{tlaDemoticV18premium,
 editor = {{Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften} and {Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig} and Richter, Tonio Sebastian and Werning, Daniel A. and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert and Peter Dils},
 year = {2024},
 title = {Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, Demotic sentences, corpus v18, premium},
 url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/thesaurus-linguae-aegyptiae/tla-demotic-v18-premium},
 location = {Berlin},
 organization = {{Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften} and {Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig}},
}
```

**RIS:**

```
TY  - DATA
T1  - Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, Demotic sentences, corpus v18, premium
PY  - 2024
Y1  - 2024
CY  - Berlin
ED  - Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
ED  - Richter, Tonio Sebastian
ED  - Werning, Daniel A.
ED  - Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig
ED  - Fischer-Elfert, Hans-Werner
ED  - Dils, Peter
IN  - Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
IN  - Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig
UR  - https://huggingface.co/datasets/thesaurus-linguae-aegyptiae/tla-demotic-v18-premium
DB  - Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae
DP  - Akademienvorhaben "Strukturen und Transformationen des Wortschatzes der ägyptischen Sprache", Berlin-Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
ER  -
```

## Glossary

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**Lemma IDs**

For the stable lemma IDs, see https://thesaurus-linguae-aegyptiae.de/info/lemma-lists.

**Glossing**

For the glossing abbreviations, see https://thesaurus-linguae-aegyptiae.de/listings/ling-glossings. 

_Note:_ The glosses correspond to the basic lemma forms, not the actual grammatical forms in the very sentence.

## Dataset Card Authors

[Daniel A. Werning](https://www.bbaw.de/die-akademie/mitarbeiterinnen-mitarbeiter/werning-daniel)

## Dataset Card Contact

[Daniel A. Werning](https://www.bbaw.de/die-akademie/mitarbeiterinnen-mitarbeiter/werning-daniel)