Natural Language Processing and Hermeneumatics in Scala

One of the key aspects of the success in the research of non-alphabetic writing systems relies on the application of methodological approaches developed and tested in other writing systems in the world. The purpose of this presentation is to show how some of these methodologies, from Statistical Natural Language Processing and Hermeneumatics, can be successfully applied to a variety of scenarios thanks to the power and versatility of Scala. In particular, the research framework developed makes extensive use of the facilities that Scala provides to build external Domain Specific Languages (DSL). These external DSL can be utilized by linguists and data scientists to provide accurate transcriptions and transliterations of texts, allowing them to obtain relevant quantitative and qualitative results from the linguistic corpora.