Hi Martin, I'm not sure if this will help, but if your student is interested in doing something with richly annotated Gutenberg data, there is a very deeply annotated corpus including about 0.5M tokens of samples from Project Gutenberg novels here, next to data from 7 other genres:
https://github.com/gucorpling/amalgum/blob/dev/amalgum/fiction/dep/AMALGUM_fiction_adams.conllu The data is automatically annotated with good quality neural UD parses, coreference resolution, entity recognition, discourse parses and more, with excerpts from over 400 novels included. We also have a much smaller but manually annotated corpus which includes fiction, along with other genres in our GUM/GENTLE corpora (24 genres total): https://gucorpling.org/gum/ Hope these are useful, Amir ------------ Dr. Amir Zeldes Assoc. Prof. of Computational Linguistics Department of Linguistics Georgetown University 1437 37th St. NW Washington, DC 20057 https://gucorpling.org/amir -----Original Message----- From: Martin Wynne via Corpora <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2024 8:11 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Corpora-List] Corpora of English novels I have a student who is interested in tracing the development of the English novel from its origins to the present day (or at least to the start of the twentieth century), and I'm trying to gather information about relevant corpora covering this text type and period. We know about the European Literary Text Collection (ELTeC, https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.distant-reading.net/eltec/&source=gmail-imap&ust=1730635931000000&usg=AOvVaw2Y1rJdwNxnHfCqswyPsa22) which will be very useful for the later end of the timescale. We also know it is possible to assemble a corpus from Project Gutenberg, archive.org, Oxford Text Archive, etc. , but would be interested in re-using any corpora that people might already have made, which aim to be representative of particular periods within this genre. The student has some flexibility with her research question, so while the original idea of 'English novels' was probably 'novels in English from Great Britain and Ireland', other related areas such as US novels might be interesting as well. Any tips and suggestions gratefully received. If we get a number of interesting direct emails, I'll be happy to summarize the results to the list. Best wishes, Martin -- Senior Researcher in Corpus Linguistics Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, University of Oxford National Co-ordinator, CLARIN-UK [email protected] https://www.google.com/url?q=https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4155-0530&source=gmail-imap&ust=1730635931000000&usg=AOvVaw1i_exZAWOHquyE8Wlol7Le _______________________________________________ Corpora mailing list -- [email protected] https://www.google.com/url?q=https://list.elra.info/mailman3/postorius/lists/corpora.list.elra.info/&source=gmail-imap&ust=1730635931000000&usg=AOvVaw3ExL6BwTVsV7vY84JjtMck To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] _______________________________________________ Corpora mailing list -- [email protected] https://list.elra.info/mailman3/postorius/lists/corpora.list.elra.info/ To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
