The Eurasian Latin Archive
The Eurasian Latin Archive (ELA) is a digital platform designed to collect and analyse Latin and multilingual texts relating to East Asia from the medieval and early modern periods. Initially developed within the DAS-MeMo project (2018-2020) and subsequently expanded through the SERICA framework, ELA offers textual data and computational tools for corpus-based research. This article presents ELA as a research environment, outlining its data model, technical architecture, and NLP workflow. Through selected examples, it shows how users can query, filter and compare documents. Beyond a functional overview, the article reflects on some methodological challenges in modelling multilingual Latin corpora and sketches possible directions for future extensions of the project.
Authors
- Emmanuela Carbé (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4347-011X)
Institutions
- Ca' Foscari University of Venice (IT)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Umanistica Digitale
- Published
- 2026-05-21
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.60923/issn.2532-8816/23500
- Primary Topic
- Natural Language Processing Techniques
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Università degli Studi di Siena
- Regione Toscana