Classics Kit — Linguamap

I've been working on Classics Kit a lot recently and talking about it some, but it's time to start showing it off and getting some feedback. I plan on doing this regularly just so I can share more about the project. Consider all of these posts and videos as invitations to chat about the project. Each of these will just be a snapshot in time. What's working? Am I making any progress or is it all just vaporware?

This particular demo today is on a feature called Linguamap. This is a tool primarily for those who are curious about statistics about vocabulary and morphology usage across texts and exercises that might be used to teach a language. I also intend for this to be used for content creators. I'm going to use this myself for making exercises and writing graded reading stories. As you'll see, someone writing a graded reader could, at a glance, see how much new vocabulary they're throwing at their potential readers.

I would like to promote this kind of work. It benefits me as well as everyone else. As an example, I just heard the other day about this Medulla Project. (I have followed Carla's work for a while and own one of her books, but haven't actually ever met her.) Perhaps a later version Linguamap could help. If you create materials for Latin or Greek and think a tool like this could even potentially be useful for you, please reach out. Consider this an open invitation to chat. Linguamap will be more useful in collaboration with others. And it will be free.

When will others be able to use it? I'll be deploying it sometime in December. It won't take long to make it ready for someone else to test for Latin materials. Greek will take a little longer. As you can probably guess, Greek lemmatization is significantly more difficult than Latin. But it's in progress.

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