The iClassifier team and collaborators

Prof. Orly Goldwasser

Prof. Orly Goldwasser

Founder, PI, conceptualization

Full professor, Institute of Archaeology and The Ancient Near East, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
https://www.orlygoldwasser.com/ orly.goldwasser@mail.huji.ac.il

Dr. Haleli Harel

Dr. Haleli Harel

Co-founder, scientific coordination, computational implementation

Postdoctoral fellow, Institute of Archaeology and The Ancient Near East, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
haleli.harel@mail.huji.ac.il

Dr. Dmitry Nikolaev

Dr. Dmitry Nikolaev

Programmer, computational implementation

Lecturer, Linguistics and English Language,
University of Manchester
https://www.dnikolaev.com/ dnikolaev@gmail.com

Yanru Xu (MA)

Yanru Xu, PhD candidate

Chinese portal coordination

Doctoral candidate, Institute of Archaeology and The Ancient Near East, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Research Associate on the "Visual Interactions in Early Writing Systems" (VIEWS) project, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge. yanru.xu@mail.huji.ac.il

Prof. Dr. Gebhard J. Selz

Prof. Gebhard Selz

Sumerian iClassifier, PI

Universitat of Vienna gebhard.selz@univie.ac.at

Dr. Susana Soler

Dr. Susana Soler

Research fellow

University of Barcelona
susana.solerp@gmail.com

The data and classifier analyses currently published were contributed by:

Egyptian

Haleli Harel, lexical borrowings in texts of the New Kingdom, after Hoch 1994,
revised and enriched with additional examples

Jorke Grotenhuis, Selected Coffin Texts Spells and Vebrbal Forms in the Coffin Texts

Susana Soler, Sinuhe, data courtesy of TLA

Tanja Pommerening and Svenja Stern, The Medical Papyrus Ebers, data courtesy of TLA

Yanru Xu, The Maxims of Ptahhotep, data courtesy of TLA

Haleli Harel, Late Egyptian Stories, data courtesy of TLA

Arthur Lesage, PhD Candidate, guest researcher at the ArchaeoMind Lab, Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) “Écrire les femmes et la féminité en Égypte ancienne : étude de linguistique cognitive dans la littérature égyptienne” UMR 8167, Orient & Méditerranée, Paris.

Ancient Chinese

Yanru Xu, The Guodian inscriptions of Laozi, data courtesy of The Intelligent Retrieval Network Database of Chinese Characters (East China Normal University, ECNU)

Anatolian Hieroglyphs

Annick Payne and Olga Olina, A Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions, after The Annotated Corpus of Luwian Texts (ACLT) created and maintained by Ilya Yakubovich and Timofey Arkhangelskiy. ACLT is based on Hawkins (2000), vol 1 (CHLI). The ACLT, classifier annotations adapted by Dmitry Nikolaev and Olga Olina and further analyzed by Annick Payne and Olga Olina; see Olina 2024 for the conversion scheme

Sumerian

Gebhard Selz and Bo Zhang, Annotating Classifiers in the Sumerian Dictionary, after The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary Project (CC BY-SA), eSPD2, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/epsd2/

Collaborations of iClassifier:

ANCIENT EGYPTIAN

Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptia (TLA)

Strukturen und Transformationen des Wortschatzes der ägyptischen Sprache, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig. Prof. Tonio Sebastian Richter, Dr. Daniel Werning, and the Leipzig team led by Prof. Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert and Dr. Peter Dils.
Complete ancient Egyptian texts are imported from the TLA and enriched with classifier analysis. https://thesaurus-linguae-aegyptiae.de

THOT - THESAURI & ONTOLOGY for documenting Ancient Egyptian Texts

Université de Liège and Strukturen und Transformationen des Wortschatzes der ägyptischen Sprache, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig.
Ancient Egyptian texts are enriched with metadata according to the THOT thesauri.
https://thot.philo.ulg.ac.be/

Projet Ramses

Université de Liège. Prof. Jean Winand, Prof. Stéphane Polis,
Hieroglyphic spellings are imported from Ramses Online and enriched with classifier analysis. http://ramses.ulg.ac.be

ANCIENT CHINESE

The Intelligent Retrieval Network Database of Chinese Characters

East China Normal University, ECNU, Shanghai. Complete ancient Chinese texts are imported and enriched with classifier analysis.

ANATOLIAN HIEROGLYPHS

The Annotated Corpus of Luwian Texts (ACLT)

Created and maintained by Ilya Yakubovich and Timofey Arkhangelskiy, https://luwian.web-corpora.net/