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</font></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" dir="ltr"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From: <span name="Christian Chiarcos">Christian Chiarcos</span> <span><<a href="mailto:christian.chiarcos@web.de" target="_blank">christian.chiarcos@web.de</a>></span></font></div>
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</font><span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" dir="ltr"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Subject: LL-L "Resources" [Scots]</font></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" dir="ltr">
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</font></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" dir="ltr"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">[looking for a Scots bible / introduction]<br><br> Dear list members,<br><br> after several years focusing on different kinds of studies, I recently became interested in the Lowlands languages again, and this time, actually coming from a professional interest, rather than just curiosity and local patriotism. So, I decided to join the mailing list again. My field is Computational Linguistics, a research area at the intersection of linguistics and computer science with the goal to study, automatically analyze, produce and manipulate (e.g., translate) natural language. One of the recent trends in our field is to extend our set of technologies to low resource languages, e.g., by transferring analysis tools from one language to another, related language for which such resources do not exist yet. The Lowlands languages represent a perfect test bed for such approaches because there are several related languages that are relatively well researched (English, German; Dutch), and several of them have rich and old literary traditions, so that a lot of data is available.<br>
<br> Having that said as an introduction, I was wondering whether anyone on the list is aware of digital editions of the Bible (transcribed, i.e., text, neither images nor OCR), in particular from Scots. I already have a collection of bibles from Modern Low German, Modern and Middle Dutch, Afrikaans and Frisian gathered from the web, but unfortunately, I have not been able to find comparable amounts of data for Scots. Scots is, however, particularly interesting for our field because of its relative linguistic proximity to English (which still is the best researched language in our field).<br>
<br> What I found so far is the following:<br><br> (i) Nisbet 1535 (New Testament, </font><a href="http://archive.org/stream/newtestamentins02wyclgoog/newtestamentins02wyclgoog_djvu.txt" target="_blank"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://archive.org/stream/<u></u>newtestamentins02wyclgoog/<u></u>newtestamentins02wyclgoog_<u></u>djvu.txt</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">, scans and OCR)<br>
(ii) Wadell 1891 (Psalms, </font><a href="http://www.scotstext.org/makars/p_hately_waddell" target="_blank"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://www.scotstext.org/<u></u>makars/p_hately_waddell</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">)<br>
(iii) Paterson 1895 (Sayings of Solomon, </font><a href="http://www.scotstext.org/makars/t_whyte_paterson" target="_blank"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://www.scotstext.org/<u></u>makars/t_whyte_paterson</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">)<br>
(iv) William A Smith (1901), The Four Gospels in Braid Scots (no digital version known, but a few quotes found on the web, e.g., </font><a href="http://www.electricscotland.com/bible/scots.htm" target="_blank"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://www.electricscotland.<u></u>com/bible/scots.htm</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">)<br>
<br> Unfortunately, (i) is unusable because it is just OCRed text with too many incorrectable errors, and (ii) to (iv) are too small pieces of text for any automated analysis.<br><br> If someone knows about another digital edition of a Scots bible (or significant parts of it), it would be interesting to know about.<br>
<br> Thanks a lot,<br> Christian</font></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" dir="ltr"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" dir="ltr"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#888888">Christian Chiarcos<br>
Angewandte Computerlinguistik<br> FB 12 Informatik und Mathematik<br> Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt a. M.<br> 60054 Frankfurt am Main<br><br></font><span tabindex="-1" class="skype_pnh_container" dir="ltr" onmouseover="SkypeClick2Call.MenuInjectionHandler.showMenu(this, event);" onmouseout="SkypeClick2Call.MenuInjectionHandler.hideMenu(event);"><span class="skype_pnh_mark"> begin_of_th</span></span>----------</font></div>
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<span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" dir="ltr"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Subject: LL-L "Help" [NDS: Plautdietsch]</font></div><p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">[copyright of Plautdietsch bible]<br>
<br> Dear list members,<br><br> as a follow-up to my last email I wanted to add another, related request with respect to Low German. In its format, size and translation style, Reimer's Plautdietsch New Testament (reference under </font><a href="http://www.plattdeutsch-niederdeutsch.net/bibel2.htm" target="_blank"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">www.plattdeutsch-<u></u>niederdeutsch.net/bibel2.htm</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">) is a wonderful resource. Unfortunately, I have not been able to find a proper reference to the author nor its exact licensing condition (</font><a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/versions/?action=getVersionInfo&vid=56" target="_blank"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://www.biblegateway.com/<u></u>versions/?action=<u></u>getVersionInfo&vid=56</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">). In case anyone on the list happens to know more about this work or its owner, I would ask to share this information with me.<br>
As an electronic resource, this text would be particularly useful for scientific studies if it could be released under an open license, e.g., CC-BY (</font><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/" target="_blank"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://creativecommons.org/<u></u>licenses/by/3.0/</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">), or under a non-commercial license, e.g., CC-BY-NC (</font><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/" target="_blank"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://creativecommons.org/<u></u>licenses/by-nc/3.0/</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">). Both licenses make sure that the work and any derivatives will always be attributed to the author. Additionally, NC would reserve him the exclusive right for commercial exploitation of his work, if he decides to limit it in this regard.<br>
<br> Thanks a lot,<br> Christian</font></p></span><p><font color="#888888" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Christian Chiarcos<br>Angewandte Computerlinguistik<br> FB 12 Informatik und Mathematik<br> Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt a. M.<br>
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