PhiloBERTA: A Transformer-Based Cross-Lingual Analysis of Greek and Latin Lexicons

Rumi Allbert, Makai L. Allbert

PhiloBERTA: A Transformer-Based Cross-Lingual Analysis of Greek and Latin Lexicons: 1 upvotes on Hugging Face Daily Papers, #46 of 50 papers on 2025-03-11. Day-by-day upvote history.

We present PhiloBERTA, a cross-lingual transformer model that measures semantic relationships between ancient Greek and Latin lexicons. Through analysis of selected term pairs from classical texts, we use contextual embeddings and angular similarity metrics to identify precise semantic alignments. Our results show that etymologically related pairs demonstrate significantly higher similarity scores, particularly for abstract philosophical concepts such as epist\=em\=e (scientia) and dikaiosyn\=e (iustitia). Statistical analysis reveals consistent patterns in these relationships (p = 0.012), with etymologically related pairs showing remarkably stable semantic preservation compared to control pairs. These findings establish a quantitative framework for examining how philosophical concepts moved between Greek and Latin traditions, offering new methods for classical philological research.

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