Giuseppe Samo

Encoding paremias as sets of proverbial markers: a computational study on Petronius’ Cena Trimalchionis

Abstract The goal of this work is to analyse the paremias contained in Petronius’ Cena Trimalchionis (CT) through qualitative, quantitative, and computational points of view to identify measures of their degree of proverbiality. We explore a typology of proverbial markers, includ...

A computational cartographic study on the merge nature of topics in stages of French

Abstract We present a study in model comparison and model selection to explore cartographic theoretical proposals and test their generalization ability. Specifically, we test whether an asymmetry arises between stages of French with respect to the merge nature of topicalized elem...