Ancient Greek Embedding Explorer

The analyses published in this series have relied on word2vec models trained on a lemmatized ancient Greek corpus, sliced by century from the 8th to the 1st BCE. The tool embedded below makes those models directly explorable. The Neighbourhood Browser returns the nearest neighbours of any lemma across one or more century models simultaneously, so you can see how a term’s distributional company changes over time. The Similarity Probe takes a focal term and a user-defined concept list and returns a colour-coded cosine-similarity table across selected models — this is the view underlying most of the quantitative claims in the series. The From-Reference Plot graphs those similarities as time series, making diachronic trajectories visible at a glance. Finally, the Antonym Candidates tab uses vector arithmetic to discover terms that occupy the geometric opposite of a given word along a user-specified semantic axis — a way of asking what the distributional antonym of a concept looks like when the semantic direction is defined by a seed pair rather than imposed by the analyst.