Morphosyntactic Annotation of Historical Texts. The Making of the Baroque Corpus of Polish

摘要

In the paper, we present some technical issues concerning processing 17th & 18th century texts for the purpose of building a corpus of that period. We describe a chain of procedures leading from transliterated source texts to morphological annotation of text samples that was implemented for building the Baroque Corpus of Polish, a relatively large historical corpus of Polish texts from 17th & 18th c. The described procedure consists of: automatic transliteration from original spelling to modern one, morphological analysis (including the construction of an inflectional dataset for Baroque Polish) and a tool for manual morphosyntactic annotation. The toolchain is being used to create a small manually validated subcorpus, which will serve as training data for a stochastic tagger. Then a larger corpus will be annotated automatically and made available via the Połiqarp corpus search tool.