23.2276, FYI: GerManC Corpus is Now Available

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Subject: 23.2276, FYI: GerManC Corpus is Now Available

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Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 12:10:51
From: Richard Whitt [jasonwhitt at mindspring.com]
Subject: GerManC Corpus is Now Available

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The complete GerManC Corpus, a representative corpus of Early 
Modern German from 1650 to 1800, is now publicly available at the 
Oxford Text Archive:
http://www.ota.ox.ac.uk/desc/2544

Following the model of the ARCHER corpus and given the aim of 
representativeness, the GerManC corpus consists of text samples of 
about 2000 words from eight genres: drama, newspapers, sermons 
and personal letters (to represent orally oriented registers) and 
narrative prose (fiction or non-fiction), scholarly (i.e. humanities), 
scientific and legal texts (to represent more print-oriented registers). In 
order to facilitate tracing historical developments, the whole period was 
divided into fifty year sections (in this case 1650-1700, 1700-1750 and 
1750-1800), and an equal number of texts from each genre was 
selected for each of these sub-periods.

The complete corpus thus consists of 360 samples, comprising 
approximately 800,000 words. Appendix 1 in the download package 
contains a lists of the files in the corpus with full documentation in an 
Excel spreadsheet. 

Project Team: Martin Durrell (PI), Paul Bennett (Co-Investigator), Silke 
Scheible (RA), Richard J. Whitt (RA), and Astrid Ensslin (RA, 
Newspaper Corpus). 



Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics





 






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