A Survey of Body Part Construction Metaphors in the Neo-Assyrian Letter Corpus

Matthew Ong; Shai Gordin

doi:10.5334/johd.142

A Survey of Body Part Construction Metaphors in the Neo-Assyrian Letter Corpus

Matthew Ong, Shai Gordin

Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology

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The dataset consists of approximately 2,400 examples of metaphors in Akkadian of what we term Body Part Constructions (BPCs) within the letter sub-corpus of the State Archives of Assyria online (SAAo). The dataset was generated by a multi-step process involving the training and application of a language model to the SAAo letter sub-corpus, converting the resulting annotations to linked open data format amenable to searching for BPCs, and manually adding metalinguistic data to the search results; these files, in CONLLU and TTL formats, are also made available in this publication. The BPC dataset is stored as a CSV file, and can serve as an easy starting place for other scholars interested in finding socio-linguistic usage patterns of this construction.

Original language	English
Article number	johd.142
Journal	Journal of Open Humanities Data
Volume	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.142
State	Published - 2024

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Akkadian
body parts
language model
linked open data
metaphor
Neo-Assyrian letters

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