Possible bug in concordance tool

Lew Worthington
Lew Worthington Member Posts: 1,501 ✭✭✭
edited November 21 in English Forum

I wanted to run a concordance with Xenophon's Historia (Loeb edition; just the first section). Something interesting happened.

It listed νυξ and Νυξ as separate entries, but showed the same results for both.

There were a few other words that showed this phenomenon.

Just for fun, I ran this on Anabasis 1.1, and it usually behaved correctly (for example, seeing Ἀρταξέρξης as a properly capitalized noun), but it sees Πόλις as a proper noun; yet, in this latter case, it does not repeat results with πόλις (lower case π).

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  • Kyle G. Anderson
    Kyle G. Anderson Member, Logos Employee Posts: 2,202

    This is related to the data. We haven't curated a comprehensive ancient Greek morphology and instead use data from Perseus.

    The Perseus data is blanket applied to Greek text with no curation. Consequently a single word might be associated with multiple lemmas found in the database.

    This is a known limitation of the data. It's unlikely we'll be able to spend more time curating it any time soon.

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