Graduate Fellow Research Symposium 2023
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High-performance computational environments offer unique research opportunities not only for high-resource tasks, but for low-resource tasks as well. The entirety of the canon of Homeric epic—the Iliad and the Odyssey—is less than thirty-thousand lines, placing the computational study of this canon firmly in the realm of low-resourcer esearch.
In this talk, Annie Lamar presents her ongoing research into a computational model of the Homeric formula. Formulae are repeated phrases that shape the meaning, meter, and performance of Homeric works. Lamar presents a new investigation into the Homeric formula through the lenses of statistics, word embeddings, and transformer models, highlighting how access to high-computational environments allows scholars to ask new questions about ancient texts.
