Corpas na Gaeilge 1882-1926: Integrating Historical and Modern Irish Texts

Elaine Uí Dhonnchadha; Kevin  Scannell; Ruairí  Ó hUiginn; Eilís  Ní Mhearraí; Máire  Nic Mhaoláin; Brian  Ó Raghallaigh; Gregory  Toner; Séamus Mac Mathúna; Déirdre  D’Auria; Eithne  Ní Ghallchobhair; Niall  O’Leary

Corpas na Gaeilge 1882-1926: Integrating Historical and Modern Irish Texts

Elaine Uí Dhonnchadha, Kevin Scannell, Ruairí Ó hUiginn, Eilís Ní Mhearraí, Máire Nic Mhaoláin, Brian Ó Raghallaigh, Gregory Toner, Séamus Mac Mathúna, Déirdre D’Auria, Eithne Ní Ghallchobhair, Niall O’Leary

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Abstract
This paper describes the processing of a corpus of seven million words of Irish texts from the period 1882-1926. The texts which have
been captured by typing or optical character recognition are processed for the purpose of lexicography. Firstly, all historical and
dialectal word forms are annotated with their modern standard equivalents using software developed for this purpose. Then, using the
modern standard annotations, the texts are processed using an existing finite-state morphological analyser and part-of-speech tagger.
This method enables us to retain the original historical text, and at the same time have full corpus-searching capabilities using modern
lemmas and inflected forms (one can also use the historical forms). It also makes use of existing NLP tools for modern Irish, and
enables integration of historical and modern Irish corpora.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	LREC 2014 Workshop LRT4HDA: Language Resources and Technologies for Processing and Linking Historical Documents and Archives - Deploying Linked Open Data in Cultural Heritage,
Editors	Kristín Bjarnadóttir
Place of Publication	Reykjavik, Iceland
Pages	12
Number of pages	18
Publication status	Published (in print/issue) - May 2014
Event	LREC 2014 Workshop LRT4HDA: Language Resources and Technologies for Processing and Linking Historical Documents and Archives - Deploying Linked Open Data in Cultural Heritage, Reykjavik, Iceland, May, 2014 - Duration: 26 May 2014 → 26 May 2014

Workshop

Workshop	LREC 2014 Workshop LRT4HDA: Language Resources and Technologies for Processing and Linking Historical Documents and Archives - Deploying Linked Open Data in Cultural Heritage, Reykjavik, Iceland, May, 2014
Period	26/05/14 → 26/05/14

Keywords

historical corpus
normalisation
standardisation
natural language processing
Irish
Gaeilge

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Uí Dhonnchadha, E., Scannell, K., Ó hUiginn, R., Ní Mhearraí, E., Nic Mhaoláin, M., Ó Raghallaigh, B., Toner, G., Mac Mathúna, S., D’Auria, D., Ní Ghallchobhair, E., & O’Leary, N. (2014). Corpas na Gaeilge 1882-1926: Integrating Historical and Modern Irish Texts. In K. Bjarnadóttir (Ed.), LREC 2014 Workshop LRT4HDA: Language Resources and Technologies for Processing and Linking Historical Documents and Archives - Deploying Linked Open Data in Cultural Heritage, (pp. 12). https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/217c/a04642c2a224dd2d87a92ef30f9f04e657a9.pdf?_ga=2.129546120.581649927.1551088137-16634852.1551088137

Uí Dhonnchadha, Elaine ; Scannell, Kevin ; Ó hUiginn, Ruairí et al. / Corpas na Gaeilge 1882-1926: Integrating Historical and Modern Irish Texts. LREC 2014 Workshop LRT4HDA: Language Resources and Technologies for Processing and Linking Historical Documents and Archives - Deploying Linked Open Data in Cultural Heritage, . editor / Kristín Bjarnadóttir. Reykjavik, Iceland, 2014. pp. 12

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Uí Dhonnchadha, E, Scannell, K, Ó hUiginn, R, Ní Mhearraí, E, Nic Mhaoláin, M, Ó Raghallaigh, B, Toner, G, Mac Mathúna, S, D’Auria, D, Ní Ghallchobhair, E & O’Leary, N 2014, Corpas na Gaeilge 1882-1926: Integrating Historical and Modern Irish Texts. in K Bjarnadóttir (ed.), LREC 2014 Workshop LRT4HDA: Language Resources and Technologies for Processing and Linking Historical Documents and Archives - Deploying Linked Open Data in Cultural Heritage, . Reykjavik, Iceland, pp. 12, LREC 2014 Workshop LRT4HDA: Language Resources and Technologies for Processing and Linking Historical Documents and Archives - Deploying Linked Open Data in Cultural Heritage, Reykjavik, Iceland, May, 2014, 26/05/14. <https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/217c/a04642c2a224dd2d87a92ef30f9f04e657a9.pdf?_ga=2.129546120.581649927.1551088137-16634852.1551088137>

Corpas na Gaeilge 1882-1926: Integrating Historical and Modern Irish Texts. / Uí Dhonnchadha, Elaine; Scannell, Kevin ; Ó hUiginn, Ruairí et al.
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