A Latin Macronizer

This automatic macronizer lets you quickly mark all the long vowels in a Latin text. The expected accuracy on an average classical text is estimated to be about 98% to 99%. Please review the resulting macrons with a critical eye!

The macronization is performed using a part-of-speech tagger (RFTagger) trained on the Latin Dependency Treebank, and with macrons provided by a customized version of the Morpheus morphological analyzer. An earlier version of this tool was the subject of my bachelor’s thesis in Language Technology, Automatic annotation of Latin vowel length.

Please note that this tool is not designed to perform scansion of poetry. Of course, any text can be macronized, but no metrical analysis is attempted.

Copyright 2015 Johan Winge. Please send comments to johan.winge@gmail.com.