Resource and Knowledge Centres

– Diachronic Language Resources, DiaRes

The Clarin K-centre for Diachronic Language Resources (DiaRes) is focused around diachronic text collections, and as a special case of these, historical texts, as well as tools and resources for processing and analysing these. Our main target audience is researchers in the humanities with an interest in different aspects of historical texts, such as historians, social scientists, researchers in literature and history of ideas, and historical linguists, as well as computational linguists working in the field of digital humanities.

We offer special expertise mainly within the following subareas:

• Storing and maintaining diachronic corpora
• Making such corpora available to the public
• Offering tools for processing diachronic (in particular historical) text in different aspects
• Offering advice on compilation, annotation and formatting of diachronic corpora
• Providing infrastructure and support for digital humanities research

Tools and Resources

• Svensk Diakronisk korpus (Swedish Diachronic Corpus)
  A corpus of texts covering the time period from Old Swedish to present day, with a wide variety of text types and freely available for download and search.
  Contact person: Eva Pettersson, Uppsala University


• HistCorp
  A platform providiing a wide range of historical corpora and other useful resources and tools for researchers working with historical text. Corpora are currently available for Coptic, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Latin, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovene, Spanish and Swedish.
  Contact person: Eva Pettersson, Uppsala University


• Searchable Historical Resources at Språkbanken Text
  Historical resources available at Språkbanken Text, and searchable via the KORP interface.
  Contact person: Lars Borin, University of Gothenburg


• Downloadable datasets from the Swedish National Archives
  Contact person: Erik Lenas, Swedish National Archives

Participants

• Computaional Linguistics, Uppsala University
• GRIDH, Göteborgs universitet
• Riksarkivet
• Språkbanken Text, Göteborgs universitet

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Publications

• Eva Pettersson, Lars Borin and Erik Lenas (2024). SWENER-1800: A Corpus for Named Entity Recognition in 19th Century Swedish. In Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications 6 (1).


• Eva Pettersson and Lars Borin (2022). Swedish Diachronic Corpus. In CLARIN: The Infrastructure for Language Resources, edited by Darja Fišer and Andreas Witt, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 561-586.


• Eva Pettersson, Erik Lenas, Lars Borin and Catharina Dahlgren. Named entity recognition in 19th century Swedish texts: Annotation guidelines. In Swe-Clarin Report Series, SCR-01-2024.


• Eva Pettersson and Lars Borin Towards a Swedish diachronic corpus: Intended content, structure and format of version 1.0 . In Swe-Clarin Report Series, SCR-03-2019.


• Eva Pettersson and Lars Borin Swedish diachronic texts: Resources and user needs to consider in a Swedish diachronic corpus . In Swe-Clarin Report Series, SCR-02-2019.


• Eva Pettersson and Lars Borin Characteristics of diachronic and historical corpora: Features to consider in a Swedish diachronic corpus . In Swe-Clarin Report Series, SCR-01-2019


• Eva Pettersson and Beáta Megyesi (2018). The HistCorp Collection of Historical Corpora and Resources. In Proceedings of the Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 3rd Conference, Helsinki, Finland.