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Inscription Compare

Side-by-side structural and morphological analysis of epigraphic texts to trace dialectal variations.

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TLE 131 vs CIE 5213 (Genitive Markers)

TLE 868 vs TLE 869 (Lead Plaques)

CIE 4116 vs CIE 4117 (Perugia Bilinguals)

How it Works

Comparing inscriptions side-by-side allows researchers to identify subtle dialectal shifts. For instance, the genitive (possessive) case ending might be "-s" in southern cities like Tarquinia, but "-al" in northern cities like Clusium.

The NLP engine automatically aligns structural cognates (words that serve the same grammatical function) and draws connections between them, even if the root words are completely different names.

Developer API

The Compare API performs a dependency parse on two distinct text nodes and calculates a structural alignment matrix using the Needleman-Wunsch algorithm adapted for syntactic trees.

GET /api/v1/corpus/compare
?a=TLE-131&b=CIE-5213
{
  "similarity_score": 0.82,
  "aligned_roots": [...]}