Tamar Kalkhitashvili

Arts and Science, associate professor in Digital Humanities

Tamar Kalkhitashvili is a researcher in Digital Humanities at Ilia State University, Tbilisi. She holds a PhD (2023), defended with a dissertation titled The Epigraphic Corpus of Georgia (Digital Edition http://epigraphy.iliauni.edu.ge ), funded by the Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation. Her doctoral work focused on encoding multilingual inscriptions in XML according to EpiDoc guidelines and building the corpus using the EFES platform.

She has been a team member of several research projects, including the Digital Edition of an Annotated Parallel Corpus of Giorgi Athonite’s Recension of the Gospel of Matthew (ogb.iliauni.edu.ge), where she was responsible for coordinating the technical team, as well as university-funded projects such as Prosopography of the First Republic (1918–1921), Society for the Spread of Literacy among Georgians, Cultural Trace of Georgians in Germany, and the Child Language Corpus.

Scientific interests / research interests

Digital Humanities, Digital Epigraphy, Corpus Linguistics, and the digital publication of literary and historical texts in under-described languages.

Featured publications

  1. The Georgian predicate cleft: A prolegomenon Daniel Harbour, Tamar Kalkhitashvili, 2025 Volume in: Caucasian Syntax (ed. Balkız Öztürk Başaran)
  2. Argument Marking and Verbal Agreement in the Speech of Georgian Children https://www.md pi.com/2016074
  3. Annotated Parallel Digital Edition of the Gospel of Matthew, E. Kvirkvelia, T. Kalkhitashvili, KADMOS, 56-96
  4. Digital Edition of the Inscriptions of Georgia, Kadmos, 2022
  5. Multilingual annotated electronic parallel corpus-based edition of “the Book of Tobit”, Museon, 2022
  6. ციფრული ეპიგრაფიკა გამოცემის სტანდარტი და მეთოდოლოგია, 2020

 

Current Courses

Digital Epigraphy (MA), Computer and Society (BA)

Course Catalog

Digital Epigraphy (MA, 2016-2026)

Digital Publications/Databases:

  1. Epigraphic Corpus of Georgia http://epigraphy.iliauni.edu.ge
  2. Child Language Corpus http://talkbank.iliauni.edu.ge
  3. Discourse on Articles (Sit'q'ua Art'ront'at'vis): A Critical Digital Edition of an Old Georgian Grammatical Treatise  https://tamarae.github.io/Arthron/
  4. Old Georgian Bible parallel annotated edition http://ogb.iliauni.edu.ge
  5. Prosopographical Database of the Society for the Spread of Literacy among the Georgians http://society.iliauni.edu.ge

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