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Encoding meaningful semantic relationships in literary texts is almost as difficult as defining and identifying them. Defining the types and the components of semantic relationships that can be extracted from literary texts is a quite challenging task because literature is full of implicit and oblique messages and references. Subsequently, identifying and encoding semantic relationships in literature is even more challenging because often relations do not have neither clear nor standard linguistic form and usually they overlap each other. This paper discusses modeling and encoding issues concerning the mapping of relationships of cultural content in literary and humanities texts, highlighted by the case of the ECARLE project annotation campaign. On handling these modeling and encoding issues the paper proposes a methodology of minimalistic and flexible annotation techniques, combined in order to generate human annotated training data for a Relation Extraction machine learning system. The proposed methodology utilizes the available TEI tagset, and, without any further customizations, allows the mapping of relations formed by named entities in a simple yet flexible way, open to reuse, interchange, conversion and visualization.

When designing a digital genetic edition, one of the most challenging and demanding tasks, upon which the success or failure of the editing venture lies, is the ability of the editor to communicate the transformations of the work that took place during the process of its writing in a comprehensible, reliable, and simultaneously attractive way. In this paper we suggest supplementary tools that may appear valuable in designing a digital reading environment suitable not only for the expert but also the common — motivated — reader and address some matters that appear crucial for reading and interacting with digital genetic editions. The challenge to reach out to the reader of the digital genetic edition and seek tools to improve her reading experience stems from our engagement with D. Solomòs' manuscripts and incomplete works and, more particularly, from the implementation of a digital scholarly edition of his manuscript corpus that will also include genetic editions for some of his works.

is paper focuses on the design principles and features of the 'Digital Solomos' project, a digital edition of the corpus of Dionysios Solomos' manuscripts that is currently being developed at the Aristotle University of essaloniki. e digital edition in question will include digital facsimiles of almost all of Solomos' dra manuscripts (provided by the institutes where they are housed) as well as digital tools to enhance the reader's interaction with the digital surrogates and the transcribed text. A er a brief overview of the editing traditions developed around the editorial problem of Solomos' unfi nished works, the paper focuses on the relationship between the digital edition under development and the groundbreaking diplomatic edition that Linos Politis envisioned and compiled in 1964. e features of the diplomatic digital edition are then described, namely its layout and the options it provides for manipulating the document facsimiles and analyzing the texts contained within them. Finally, the paper's closing section refers to the design and characteristics of the digital genetic edition of Funeral Ode II, a small poem by Dionysios Solomos, which will be the fi rst (experimental) genetic edition to be included within the 'Digital Solomos' project.