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Towards a broad-coverage graphemic analysis of large historical corpora

Published:2021-11-01 Issue:3 Volume:40 Page:401-420
ISSN:1613-3706
Container-title:Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft
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Author:

Waldenberger Sandra¹,Dipper Stefanie²,Lemke Ilka³

Affiliation:

1. Germanistisches Institut , Ruhr-Universität Bochum , Universitätsstr. 150 , Bochum , Germany

2. Sprachwissenschaftliches Institut , Ruhr-Universität Bochum , Universitätsstr. 150 , Bochum , Germany

3. Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster , Germanistisches Institut, Abteilung Sprachwissenschaft , Schlossplatz 34, Raum: VSH 146 , Münster , Germany

Abstract

Abstract This paper presents a method which we are developing to explore graphemic variation in large historical corpora of German. Historical corpora provide an amount of data at the level of graphemics which cannot be handled exhaustively using common methods of manual evaluation. To deal with this challenge, we apply methods from computational linguistics to pave the way for a broad-coverage graph(em)ic analysis of large historical corpora. In this paper, we show how our approach can be applied to the Reference Corpus of Middle High German. Illustrating our method and linguistic analysis, we present findings from our investigations into diatopic and/or diachronic variation as documented in 13th and 14th century charters (Urkunden) from the corpus.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics

Link

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/zfs-2021-2037/pdf

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