An Expert System for the Classical Languages: Metrical Analysis Components

This paper presents some aspects of a computer expert system created to perform linguistical and metrical analysis of Greek and Latin texts keeping into account such theorical problems, and also acting as a subsystem for another project offering a transformational model for automatic inflection of Greek and Latin languages through all the reconstructed historical stages. The metrical system can generate truly interactive metrical "editions" which can be queried by scholars for any combination of observed prosodical, syntactical and metrical phenomena, and several outputs for different uses, with special attention to its integration in other projects like digital editions.