25.4307, Media: Treebank of Early New High German

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Subject: 25.4307, Media:  Treebank of Early New High German

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Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 20:53:04
From: Ulrike Demske [udemske at uni-potsdam.de]
Subject: Treebank of Early New High German

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We recently released the Mercurius Treebank of Early New High German
(1350-1650) to the public. It is being hosted by the INESS treebanking
infrastructure (http://iness.uib.no) and is subject to the CC-BY license.

The Mercurius Treebank is a syntactically annotated corpus of the early
newspapers 'Mercurius' and 'Annus Christi', published in 1667 and 1597,
respectively. It comprises a total of 170.000 tokens and 8.400 syntactically
annotated sentences. It was annotated using a hybrid annotation scheme based
on TIGER, which combines both dependency and constituency information. Each
text segment was independently annotated by two annotators using the @nnotate
tool (Brants and Plaehn, 2000).

The Mercurius Treebank can be found on the INESS website (http://iness.uib.no)
by navigating to 'Treebank selection' -> German -> deu-mercurius-con, and then
selecting 'Sentence Overview' after accepting the license agreement. It may be
necessary to create an OpenIdP account first.

The treebank is searchable with an extended TIGERSearch syntax (Meurer, 2012).
For example, the search query [word=''Kirche''] will return all sentences
which contain the word ''Kirche'', while the search query [cat=''PP''] will
return all sentences which contain a prepositional phrase node.

The present corpus has been compiled in 2003 to 2005 at Saarland University as
a pilot to a much larger project aiming at the establishment of a
syntactically annotated reference corpus for the period of Early New High
German (1350-1650) as a whole 
(http://www.uni-potsdam.de/guvdds/projekte/aktproj.html).
 


Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics

Subject Language(s): German (deu)






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