Language Resources and Editions

This chapter explores how linguistically annotated corpora for Ancient Greek and Latin occupy a pivotal space between editions, language resources, and language technologies. Drawing on the author’s experience in two landmark projects (the Ancient Greek and Latin Dependency Treebank and LiLa: Linking Latin), it highlights how digital annotated editions and corpora not only encode linguistic information but also participate in textual scholarship. The chapter discusses the history of the projects, the implications of adopting shared standards, and situates these developments in the broader context of the semantic web. Far from being merely technical artifacts, language resources emerge as tools for interpretation and learning. Ultimately, they embody what the critical edition has long represented: a form through which philologists articulate their vision of language and its relationship to the present.