@PhilosTEI: Building Corpora for Philosophers

Arianna Betti; Martin Reynaert; Hein van den Berg

doi:10.5334/bbi.32

@PhilosTEI: Building Corpora for Philosophers

Arianna Betti
, Martin Reynaert
, Hein van den Berg

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Abstract

For philosophers to be able to take a computational turn in their field, especially if that field relies heavily on historical material, it is crucial to be able to build high-quality, easily and freely accessible corpora in a sustainable format composed from multi-language, multi-script books from different historical periods. At the moment, corpora matching these needs are virtually non-existent. Within the CLARIN-NL project @PhilosTEI, we have addressed the problem of building this kind of corpora by developing an open-source, web-based, user-friendly workflow from textual images to TEI, based on state-of-the-art open-source OCR software Tesseract, and a multi-language version of TICCL, a powerful OCR post-correction tool. We have demonstrated the utility of the @PhilosTEI tool by applying it to a multilingual, multi-script corpus of important 18th to 20th century European philosophical texts.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CLARIN-NL in the Low Countries
Editors	Jan Odijk, Arjan van Hessen
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	Ubiquity Press, London
Chapter	32
Pages	379-392
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Electronic)	9781911529255
ISBN (Print)	9781911529248
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5334/bbi.32
Publication status	Published - 28 Dec 2017

Keywords

History and philosophy of science and technology
History of ideas and intellectual history
Software for humanities
Textual and linguistic corpora
TICCL
OCR post-correction
@PhilosTEI

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