  This paper presents a fully automatic approach to the scansion of Classical
Greek hexameter verse. In particular, the paper describes an algorithm that
uses deterministic finite-state automata and local linguistic rules to
implement a targeted search for valid spondeus patterns and, in addition, a
weighted finite-state transducer to correct and complete partial analyses and
to reject invalid candidates. The paper also details the results of an
empirical evaluation of the annotation quality resulting from this approach on
hand-annotated data. It is shown that a finite-state approach provides quick
and linguistically sound analyses of hexameter verses as well as an efficient
formalisation of linguistic knowledge. The project code is available (see
https://github.com/anetschka/greek_scansion).
