By using our site, you agree to our collection of information through the use of cookies. To learn more, view our Privacy Policy. To browse Academia. We present a general and simple method to adapt an existing NLP tool in order to enable it to deal with historical varieties of languages. This approach consists basically in expanding the dictionary with the old word variants and in retraining the tagger with a small training corpus.
We implement this approach for Old Spanish. The results of a thorough evaluation over the extended tool show that using this method an almost state-of-the-art performance is obtained, adequate to carry out quantitative studies in the humanities: To our knowledge, this is the first time that such a strategy is adopted to annotate historical language varieties and we believe that it could be used as well to deal with other non-standard varieties of languages.
In this article we describe two different strategies for the automatic tagging of a Spanish diachronic corpus involving the adaptation of existing NLP tools developed for modern Spanish. In the initial approach we follow a state-of-the-art strategy, which consists on standardizing the spelling and the lexicon. We discuss the shortcomings of the initial approach and propose a new one, which does not consist in adapting the source texts to the tagger, but rather in modifying the tagger for the direct treatment of the old variants.
We describe a new GATE-based linguistic annotation pipeline for Early Modern German, which can be used to annotate historical texts with word tokens, sentence boundaries, lemmas, and POS tags. The POS-tagging and lemmatisation components of the pipeline achieve an average accuracy of We show that normalisation of spelling variation can further improve these results.
With no specialised tools available for processing this particular stage of the language, this pipeline will be of particular interest to smaller, humanities-based projects wishing to add linguistic annotations to their historical data but which lack the means or resources to develop such tools themselves. Father Busa in a picture taken in Gallarate, I Preface Over three consecutive years, the workshop on Annotation of Corpora for Research in the Humanitites ACRH has established itself as an occasion to foster cooperation between historical, philological and linguistic studies and current corpus and computational linguistics.
