greek-utils 0.1 Released

While I write and release a lot of Python code for working with Ancient Greek, it tends to be either throwaway code for data wrangling or fairly specialized code for things like accentuation or inflectional morphology.

I decided there needed to be a place to put lightweight utilities that can be used by a range of different projects. This is the motivation for greek-utils.

The initial 0.1 release of greek-utils just provides the following features:

Convert BetaCode to Unicode
Turn an iterable into a generator over trigrams
A Trie datastructure
MorphGNT BCV string to human-readable verse reference

greek-utils is pip installable and the repo is at

https://github.com/jtauber/greek-utils

Full documentation is included there.

I’ll be moving a lot more out of gists and individual project repos over the coming months.

at the intersection of computing, linguistics, philology, and learning science

By day I’m an entrepreneur, web technologist and open-source developer but my academic background is in linguistics (along with some classics, comparative philology, and educational statistics) and my main avocation is working on text, annotations, analysis and software relating to historical languages with a particular interest in facilitating better learning.

While my focus has mostly been on Biblical Greek, much of the work is highly relevant to other Hellenistic Greek texts, other dialects of Ancient Greek and, indeed, texts in completely different languages as well.

All code written for this endeavour is open source and text and data is made available under a Creative Commons license to the extent allowed by the sources used.