MTAAC Gold Corpus

License

MTAAC Gold Corpus by MTAAC Contributors (see CONTRIBUTORS.txt)

To the extent possible under law, the person who associated CC0 with MTAAC Gold Corpus has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to MTAAC Gold Corpus.

You should have received a copy of the CC0 legalcode along with this work. If not, see http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/.

Annotations derived from the ETCSRI corpus (morph/external) are released to the public domain just like the rest of the content of this repository, but note the specific instructions for citation below.

Citation

If you use this data in any way in academic context, authors must be cited (see CONTRIBUTORS.txt).

In scientific papers, please refer to the associated article:

Chiarcos, C.; Khait, I.; Pagé-Perron, É.; Schenk, N.; Jayanth; Fäth, C.; Steuer, J.; Mcgrath, W.; Wang, J. (2018), 
Annotating a Low-Resource Language with LLOD Technology: Sumerian Morphology and Syntax. Information 9(11): 290, 
[https://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/9/11/290]

The directory morph/external contains data partially derived from the ETCSRI corpus. If you use this data, please attribute the original creators, as well:

ETCSRI is developed at the Department of Assyriology and Hebrew Studies (Institute of Ancient Studies, Eötvös L. University, Budapest) 
by Gábor Zólyomi as part of The Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus with the continuous assistance and help of Steve Tinney. 

It can be cited as :
Zólyomi, Gábor - Tanos, Bálint - Sövegjártó, Szilvia. The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Royal Inscriptions. 2008-. 
http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/etcsri/index.html

Description

In this repository is the annotation gold corpus for the MTAAC project.

As of Nov 21, 2020, it contains

• 15,502 tokens (372 texts) with morphological annotation from the Ur III corpus, manually annotated within the MTAAC project, balanced for genres
• 9,075 tokens (610 texts) with morphological annotation from the Ur III corpus, annotations automatically derived from the ETSCRI corpus, genre: royal inscriptions

Gold corpus selection

See https://cdli-gh.github.io/research_select.html

History

2020/11/21 external folder added with ETSCRI-based annotations projected onto CDLI transcriptions, see morph/external/build.sh 2018/03/07 initial release

TODO

• morph/external: address minor tagset consistency issues in the ETSCRI conversion, e.g. NF.V.SUB should be NF.V.PT