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 Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Latin, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovene, Spanish and Swedish.
  Contact person: Eva Pettersson, Uppsala University
• The Decrypt Project
  Within the DECRYPT project, resources and tools for facilitating research in historical cryptology are made available with open access, allowing collection, analysis and decryption of historical ciphertexts. Resources are collections of encrypted sources, and
  historical texts and language models. The tools facilitate the processing of the encrypted sources from transcription to decryption incl. cryptanalysis.
  Contact person: Beáta Megyesi, 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: Catharina Dahlgren, Swedish National Archives

Participants

GRIDH, University of Gothenburg,
main contact: Mats Fridlund, mats.fridlund@lir.gu.se

Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University,
main contact: Eva Pettersson, eva.pettersson@lingfil.uu.se

Riksarkivet (The Swedish National Archives),
main contact: Catharina Dahlgren, catharina.dahlgren@riksarkivet.se

Språkbanken Text (The Swedish Language Bank Text), University of Gothenburg,
main contact: Lars Borin, lars.borin@svenska.gu.se

Help Desk Contact

Eva Pettersson, eva.pettersson@lingfil.uu.se

Publications

• Megyesi, B., Esslinger, B., Fornés, A., Kopal, N., Láng, B., Lasry, G., de Leeuw, K., Pettersson, E., Wacker, A., and Waldispühl, M. (2020)
  Decryption of historical manuscripts: the DECRYPT project. In Cryptologia.
  DOI: 10.1080/01611194.2020.1716410.
• Eva Pettersson & Lars Borin (2019)
  Towards a Swedish diachronic corpus: Intended content, structure and format of version 1.0. In Swe-Clarin Report Series SCR-03-2019.
• Eva Pettersson & Lars Borin (2019)
  Swedish diachronic texts: Resources and user needs to consider in a Swedish diachronic corpus. In Swe-Clarin Report Series SCR-02-2019.
• Eva Pettersson & Lars Borin (2019)
  Characteristics of diachronic and historical corpora: Features to consider in a Swedish diachronic corpus. In Swe-Clarin Report Series SCR-01-2019.
• Eva Pettersson (2018)
  The HistCorp Collection of Historical Corpora and Resources.
  In Proceedings of the Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 3rd
  Conference.