Corpus of Polish Texts from 1830–1918

The corpus is a manually inflectionally annotated subset of the corpus collected in the project Automatic inflectional analysis of Polish texts from 1830–1918 with respect to changes in inflection and spelling. The original corpus contains over 1 million words, divided in equal proportions into five functional styles: popular science, short press news, journalism, prose, and drama. For manual annotation, 2,944 samples of about 160 words each were selected, preserving the proportions of the functional styles. The resulting manually annotated corpus covers about half of the original collection (about 500,000 words, 625,000 segments).

The corpus was annotated in the Chronofleks project, funded by the National Science Centre (2014/15/B/HS2/03119) and carried out at the Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, under the supervision of Marcin Woliński. The annotators were Bartłomiej Alberski, Joanna Bilińska, Anna Bulińska, Agata Drozd, Monika Jabłońska, Witold Kieraś, Emanuel Modrzejewski, Paulina Rosalska and Sebastian Żurowski, with technical supervision by Dorota Komosińska. The corpus was indexed with the MTAS search engine by Michał Wasiluk, and the web interface was developed by Zbigniew Gawłowicz.

Search and download

The corpus search engine gives access to three corpora:

• the manually annotated corpus (0.6 million segments),
• the full, automatically transcribed and annotated corpus of the original project (1.3 million segments),
• one hundred novels by Józef Ignacy Kraszewski originally published in 1837–1887, obtained from Wikisource, automatically transcribed and annotated (8.2 million segments).

A user manual (in Polish) is available.

The manually annotated corpus can also be downloaded as TEI XML source files (74 MB).

Citing

The original one-million-word corpus is described in:

• Joanna Bilińska, Magdalena Derwojedowa, Witold Kieraś and Monika Kwiecień. 2016. Mikrokorpus polszczyzny 1830-1918. Komunikacja specjalistyczna, 11:149–161.

The manually annotated subset was described in:

• Witold Kieraś and Marcin Woliński. 2018. Manually Annotated Corpus of Polish Texts Published between 1830 and 1918. In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018), pages 3854–3859. European Language Resources Association (ELRA), Paris, France.