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International Journal of Corpus LinguisticsVol. 21:4 (2016) ► pp.559–571
The HeliPaD
A parsed corpus of Old Saxon
This short paper introduces the HeliPaD, a new parsed corpus of Old Saxon (Old Low German). It is annotated according to the standards of the Penn Corpora of Historical English, enriched with lemmatization and additional morphological attributes as well as textual and metrical annotation. This paper provides an overview of its main features and compares it to existing resources such as the Deutsch Diachron Digital version of the Old Saxon Heliand as part of the Referenzkorpus Altdeutsch. It closes with a roadmap for planned future expansions.
Keywords: parsed corpus, historical corpus, Old Saxon, Low German
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