The Text+Berg Corpus
The Text-Berg corpus is a heritage corpus of alpine and mountaineering texts. Texts have been digitised from the yearbooks of the Swiss Alpine Club, Echo des Alpes and Die Alpen, as well as the British Alpine Club's Alpine Journal. The table below provides an overview of the source material, timespan and languages included in the corpus.
| Source | Timespan | Language(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Das Jahrbuch des SAC (SAC) | 1864-1923 | de, fr, it, rm, gsw, en (mixed) |
| Das Echo des Alpes (EdA) | 1872-1924 | fr |
| Die Alpen (SAC) | 1925-1956 | de, fr, it, rm, gsw, en (mixed) |
| Die Alpen (SAC) | 1957-2011 | de, fr (parallel) |
| The Alpine Journal (BAC) | 1969-2008 | en |
Being a diarchronic heritage corpus, its development has inspired numerous experiments in order to semantically enrich this corpus as both a historic and a linguistic resource (see below).
The corpus has been divided into its language specific subsections. The table below provides an overview of corpus statistics for each subsection.
SAC
| lang | tokens | types | lemmas | sents | texts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| de | 23.4m | 769k | 325k | 1.3m | 12k |
| fr | 14.9m | 317k | 85k | 787k | 8k |
| it | 324k | 39k | 18k | 16k | 162 |
| rm | 14k | 4.5k | 0.2k | 786 | 18 |
| gsw | 3k | 1.3k | 0.2k | 156 | 3 |
| en | 0.9k | 0.4k | 0.3k | 41 | 1 |
| Total | 38.6m | 1.1m | 429k | 2.1m | 21k |
Alignment
The corpus has been aligned on the sentence level.
EdA
| lang | tokens | types | lemmas | sents | texts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| fr | 7.4m | 185k | 40k | 376k | 4.5k |
BAC
| lang | tokens | types | lemmas | sents | texts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| en | 6.5m | 181k | 60k | 289k | 1.5k |
Publications
- Detection and annotation of code-switching Clematide and Volk 2014
- Crowdsourced correction of OCR errors Clematide et al. 2016, Clematide et al. 2018
- Gazetteer and rule-based NER for the annotation of personal names, toponyms, organisations and time expressions Ebling et al. 2011, Volk et al. 2009
- Development of a manually annotated parallel treebank Göhring et al. 2010
- Challenges in building a heritage alpine text Volk et al 2010
- special handling of elliptical compound nouns and separable prefix verbs in German Volk et al. 2016, Aepli and Volk 2013
- See here for more publications from the Text+Berg project