• Corpus ID: 5277106

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

@inproceedings{Dhonnchadha2014CorpasNG,
  title={Corpas na Gaeilge 1882-1926: Integrating Historical and Modern Irish Texts},
  author={Elaine U{\'i} Dhonnchadha and Kevin P. Scannell and Ruair{\'i} {\'O} Huiginn and Eil{\'i}s N{\'i} Mhearra{\'i} and M{\'a}ire Nic Mh{\'a}olain and Brian {\'O} Raghallaigh and Gregory Toner and S{\'e}amus Mac Math{\'u}na and D{\'e}irdre D'Auria and Eithne N{\'i} Ghallchobh{\'a}ir and Niall O’Leary},
  year={2014}
}

• Elaine Uí Dhonnchadha, Kevin P. Scannell, +8 authors Niall O’Leary
• Published 1 May 2014
• Computer Science

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.