23.2362, FYI: The GerManC Corpus is Now Available

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Subject: 23.2362, FYI: The GerManC Corpus is Now Available

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Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 10:38:28
From: Richard J. Whitt [jasonwhitt at mindspring.com]
Subject: The GerManC Corpus is Now Available

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The GerManC Corpus, a multi-genre representative corpus of Early 
Modern German from 1650-1800, is now publicly available for 
download at

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. In addition to plain text, the corpus is also available 
in TEI Lite P5 XML, GATE XML, and GATE column formats.

Project web-site:

http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/research/projects/germanc/

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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