Aug 2026· Us Wurk· Vol 75, pp. 18-29· 0 citations· 28 references
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The paper describes the Corpus of Wangerooge Frisian (CWF), an online resource gathering the extant documentation of the East Frisian variety formerly spoken on the island of Wangerooge. In addition to the, textual material, the corpus includes recently made transcriptions of about half an hour of audio recordings from the 1920s. The paper outlines the aims and structure of the corpus and describes the preparation of the texts. It ends with a brief discussion of some past and future applications.
This paper presents a historical parallel corpus of languages spoken in mainland France. It consists of a collection of versions of the Parable of the Prodigal Son, collected during the 19th century. The paper aims to present the interest of such a corpus, its constitution—through XML/TEI encoding, semi-automatic align...
Lucence Ing, Juliette Janes, Sven Ködel et al.· International Conference on...· 0 citations
This article demonstrates the benefits and pitfalls of utilizing Natural Language Processing to structure a large corpus of newspaper adverts on fugitive enslaved people from the Atlantic World between 1766 and 1821. We evaluate a model for multilingual event extraction trained specifically for fugitive ads and jail li...
Gunvor Simonsen, N. K. Käfer, Heather Freund et al.· Archipelagos· 0 citations
Abstract:This article presents the background to, and a description of, a newly developed online database of historical and contemporary lexical data for languages of the region on and around the Bird's Head of New Guinea. In the first public release described here, the OUTOFPAPUA database collects more than 200,000 le...
Antoinette Schapper, David Kamholz· Oceanic Linguistics· 0 citations
Prompted by the publication of a new bilingual edition (with notes) of the first and second declamations in the
Corpus Libanianum
, this note presents some thoughts on these texts. While acknowledging the general usefulness of the new edition, it points out some shortcomings regarding the historical context of th...
A study of the variants in the Thai Syāmaraṭṭha canon shows that in many cases they offer an equal or better reading than the other recensions. By “better” is meant more contextually relevant, earlier, and more accurate—that is, offering a better solution to arcane morphological and semantic problems. In many cases the...
