Issue 9: Text Collections

Rezension von „InterCorp – Ein mehrsprachiges Parallelkorpus des Tschechischen Nationalkorpus“ (Český národní korpus)

InterCorp http://www.korpus.cz/ (Last Accessed: 2018-03-09). Reviewed by Agnes Kim (Institut für Slawistik, Universität Wien).

This review describes and evaluates the InterCorp, a multilingual parallel corpus with referential character, developed by the Institute of the Czech National Corpus and the Institute of Theoretical and Computer Linguistics at the Charles University (Prague). In its current version 10, which was published in 2017, it comprises 2 108 703 589 tokens of…

Rezension von „Europarl“

Europarl http://www.statmt.org/europarl/ (Last Accessed: 2018-01-19). Reviewed by Claes Neuefeind (Institute for Digital Humanities, University of Cologne).

The Europarl corpus, short for „European Parliament Proceedings Parallel Corpus 1996-2011“, is provided by the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. Europarl was first published in 2001, the latest release (May 15th, 2012) includes the parliament proceedings from 1996-2011. There is no dedicated user interface, since Europarl is primarily meant to…

Review of “ShakespearePlaysPlus Text Corpus”

Shakespeare Corpus: ShakespearePlaysPlus http://lexically.net/wordsmith/support/shakespeare.html (Last Accessed: 2018-07-03). Reviewed by Katharina Mahler (CCeH, University of Cologne).

ShakespearePlaysPlus is a freely available digital text corpus of William Shakespeare’s plays. The 37 plays were compiled from the Oxford University Press 1916 Edition of “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare” and annotated by Mike Scott for his own research in 2006. The plays are organized in three categories according to their type, i.e., comedies…

Review of “Papyri.info”

Papyri.info http://papyri.info (Last Accessed: 2018-10-23). Reviewed by Lucia Vannini (Institute of Classical Studies).

Papyri.info, made available by the Duke University, is a text collection of over 50,000 documentary papyri, i.e., Greek and Latin documents, dating back to the IV century BC – VIII century AD, which constitute a fundamental body of evidence for ancient everyday life in the classical antiquity. The collection consists of transcriptions encoded in EpiDoc (a…

Rezension des „Corpus Oral de Referencia de la Lengua Española Contempóranea“

CORLEC http://www.lllf.uam.es/ESP/Corlec.html (Last Accessed: 2018-04-30). Reviewed by Katrin Betz (Universität Bamberg).

In this paper we review the „Corpus Oral de Referencia de la Lengua Española Contempóranea“. This corpus is a carefully compiled text collection of orthographically transcribed recordings of oral conversations. As it was compiled as a reference corpus, it provides texts of different styles and registers and has a considerable size of about 1,100,000 words…

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