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IcePaHC
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The Icelandic Parsed Historical Corpus (IcePaHC) is a project that has
built a diachronic corpus with samples of written Icelandic from all
periods from the 12th century to modern times. The corpus is mostly
compatible with the corpora of historical English developed at
UPenn. For historical texts spelling is modernized for phonological
change.

If using this corpus in your research, please cite: Wallenberg, Joel
C., Anton Karl Ingason, Einar Freyr Sigurðsson and Eiríkur
Rögnvaldsson. 2011. Icelandic Parsed Historical Corpus
(IcePaHC). Version 0.9.

	Cited from http://www.linguist.is/icelandic_treebank/Download
	June 28, 2017


HistCorp inclusion date
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June 27, 2017


Website
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http://www.linguist.is/icelandic_treebank/Icelandic_Parsed_Historical_Corpus_(IcePaHC)


Licence
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GNU Lesser General Public License
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Lesser_General_Public_License)


The HistCorp files
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On the HistCorp page, the IcePaHC texts are provided in a plain text
format ('txt'), a tokenised format ('tok'), a format with historical
spelling mapped to the corresponding modern spelling ('norm'), a
format with morphological annotation ('morph'), and a format with
syntactic annotation (syntax'). (The morphologically and syntactically
annotated files are both found in the 'anno' package on the HistCorp
page.)

The plain text files are the same as in the original IcePaHC package,
only with metadata added in a TEI-compatible format at the top of each
file. The metadata information was automatically extracted from the
info-files connected to each text in the original IcePaHC donwload. In
addition, the number of tokens for each file has been calculated based
on the tokenised files.

In the tokenised files, the texts are split into one token on each
line. The tokenised files were created by simply extracting the first
column of the tagged files in the IcePaHC package, using the
Unix-based 'cut -f1' command.

Parts of the corpus are manually normalised regarding spelling, and
these files are provided in a separate download marked 'norm'. In
these files the historical spelling is mapped to its corresponding
modern spelling, and the files are divided into training, development
and test sets identical to the data sets used by Pettersson et. al in
the paper 'A Multilingual Evaluation of Three Spelling Normalisation
Methods for Historical Text'
(http://aclweb.org/anthology//W/W14/W14-0605.pdf).

The morphologically analysed files are provided in a tab-separated
format, with the word form in the first column, its part-of-speech tag
in the second column, and lemma in the third column. The tagset used
is described here: http://linguist.is/icelandic_treebank/Tagset.

The syntactically annotated files are provided in their original
parenthesis-based format. The annotation scheme used is described
further here:
http://www.linguist.is/icelandic_treebank/Icelandic_Parsed_Historical_Corpus_(IcePaHC)#Annotation_guidelines  

Size: 61 texts, with a total of 1,015,569 tokens.

Genres: bible text, biography, fiction, law, narrative, religious,
science and sermon.