https://github.com/cltk/latin_proper_names_cltk

A list of ~40K Classical Latin proper names
https://github.com/cltk/latin_proper_names_cltk

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A list of ~40K Classical Latin proper names

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/cltk/latin_proper_names_cltk
• Owner: cltk
• License: mit
• Created: 2014-11-01T15:27:36.000Z (over 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2015-09-27T05:24:24.000Z (over 10 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-03-24T10:12:40.473Z (over 1 year ago)
• Language: Python
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• Size: 516 KB
• Stars: 8
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 6
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# About

The file `proper_names.txt` contains a newline-delimited file which contains all of the words in the PHI5 which are likely proper names (persons, places, etc.). The value of this list is that, since everything is a noun, it may be used as a default POS tagger for these unusual words. 

`build_proper_names_list.py` shows how this file was made. `proper_names.txt` contains 40,683 unique, alphabetized words.

# Important notes:

* This list contains some words that are not proper nouns, and is currently being hand-checked to remove these.  It is currently hand-checked to EOF.

* Some processing artifacts remain in the text, esp forms w/ a trailing _ (underscore) character. These will be removed later via automatic processing.

* Similarly, there are a number of doublets as a result of a lexeme + underscore + additional lexeme; e.g., 'Alexandro' vs 'Alexandro_erat'.

* A certain number of forms with attached clitics (e.g., -que, -ve) are present in the corpus; the host lexemes of these clitics are often doublets of non-cliticized lexemes.

* A number of apparent abbreviations have been left intact; e.g., 'Achil'.

* There is a certain amount of orthographic doubling as the result of u/v or i/j spellings; e.g., 'Achivis' vs. 'Achiuis', or '-que' vs '-qve'.  Similarly, in Greek words there are a number of doublets from variant y/u spellings; e.g., 'Amphitruone' vs. 'Amphitryone'.

* Roman numeral notation has also been removed.

# License

Copyright (c) 2014 Kyle P. Johnson, under the MIT License. See 'LICENSE' for details.