Syntactic Language Change in English and German: Metrics, Parsers, and Convergences

1 code implementation • 18 Feb 2024 • Yanran Chen, Wei Zhao, Anne Breitbarth, Manuel Stoeckel, Alexander Mehler, Steffen Eger

Even though we have evidence that recent parsers trained on modern treebanks are not heavily affected by data 'noise' such as spelling changes and OCR errors in our historic data, we find that results of syntactic language change are sensitive to the parsers involved, which is a caution against using a single parser for evaluating syntactic language change as done in previous work.

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Sentence

A Penn-style Treebank of Middle Low German

no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Hannah Booth, Anne Breitbarth, Aaron Ecay, Melissa Farasyn

We outline the issues and decisions involved in creating a Penn-style treebank of Middle Low German (MLG, 1200-1650), which will form part of the Corpus of Historical Low German (CHLG).