The CLaDA-BG team is pleased to invite you to attend the lecture of Prof. Dr Marco Passarotti from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan, Italy) Interoperability of Language Resources through Linked Open Data: The LiLa Knowledge Base for Latin at the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies (Geo Milev, G. Bonchev Str. bl. 2, IICT-BAS, Room 228) at 14:00h on 17.11.2026, Room 228.
ABSTRACT: This talk addresses the issue of interoperability among language resources. After introducing the principles of the Linked Open Data paradigm and its application to the representation and publication of languege resources, both lexical and textual, it describes the core architecture of LiLa, the knowledge base of interoperable resources for Latin (https://lila-erc.eu). The modeling of the different types of resources currently published in LiLa is presented in detail. Finally, the talk introduces the online services available for querying and extending LiLa, together with a series of SPARQL queries executed on the knowledge base.
BIO: Marco Passarotti is Full Professor of Computational Linguistics at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan, Italy), where he is Director of the CIRCSE Research Centre and Coordinator of the MA in Linguistic Computing. His main research interests deal with building, using and disseminating linguistic resources and natural language processing tools for Latin. A former pupil of one of the pioneers of humanities computing, father Roberto Busa SJ, since 2006 he has headed the Index Thomisticus Treebank project. Between 2018 and 2023, he was the principal investigator of the LiLa project, an ERC-Consolidator Grant that built a Linked Data Knowledge Base of interoperable linguistic resources for Latin. He authored more than 200 publications.
