Part-of-speech tagging, morphological tagging, and lemmatization of historical texts pose
special challenges due to the high spelling variability and the lack of large, high-quality …

Historical text archives constitute a rich and diverse source of information, which is
becoming increasingly readily accessible, due to large-scale digitisation efforts. However, it …

Sprachen funktionieren durch das Zusammenwirken des Usuellen, des Formelhaften und
der Variation, die paradoxerweise gleichzeitig ein Indikator der Festigkeit und ihre treibende …

This paper describes an annotated gold standard sample corpus of Early Modern German
containing over 50,000 tokens of text manually annotated with POS tags, lemmas, and …

We present a general and simple method to adapt an existing NLP tool in order to enable it
to deal with historical varieties of languages. This approach consists basically in expanding …

The goal of this study is to evaluate an 'offthe-shelf'POS-tagger for modern German on
historical data from the Early Modern period (1650-1800). With no specialised tagger …

In this paper, we argue that comparable collections of historical written resources can help
overcoming typical challenges posed by heritage texts enhancing spelling normalization …

Part-of-speech (PoS) tagging of non-standard language with models developed for standard
language is known to suffer from a significant decrease in accuracy. Two methods are …

Tagger accuracy deteriorates when applied to texts different from the training corpus, eg with
respect to register or time period. On historical data, accuracy can drop to and below 90 …

The main aim of this thesis is to trace the development of four different constructions
involving auxiliaries and participles through the history of the Spanish language. These …