Annotated Corpora of Historical Catalan (HisCat) - Llibre dels Fets

This repository is part of the Annotated Corpora of Historical Catalan (HisCat). It contains the first POS-tagged text that is partially manually corrected and used to train Old Catalan POS taggers, described in the following paper:

Meelen, Marieke & Pujol i Campeny, Afra, (2021) 'Old Catalan Morphosyntax: developing an annotated corpus' in Journal of Open Humanities Data.

This POS-tagged text is the 13th century Llibre dels Fets, a historical chronicle. The version of the text used for this project is

Bruguera, J. (1991). El Llibre dels Fets del Rei en Jaume. Barcelona: Barcino.

as prepared for the Corpus Informatitzat del Català Antic

Torruella, J., Pérez Saldanya, M., & Martines, J. (2009). Corpus Informatitzat del Català Antic. URL: http://cica.cat/.

The subcorpus counts with 164,096 POS-annotated tokens (165,538 tokens including punctuation and folio markers), of which 60,000 have been manually corrected. This subcorpus contains a total of and 4,506 main clauses. POS tagging of this text was done with the Memory-Based Tagger by TiMBL (https://languagemachines.github.io/mbt/). The code accompanying the paper can be found on GitHub: https://github.com/lothelanor/catalancorpora). In addition to memory-based tagging, have tried neural-based tagging with TARGER (https://github.com/achernodub/targer) for which we created word embeddings that can be found on Zenodo. Results for memory-based tagging were better, however, which is why this version is uploaded here.