The Kronieken Corpus: an Annotated Collection of Dutch/Flemish Chronicles from 1500–1850

Theo Dekker; Erika Kuijpers; Alie Lassche; Carolina Lenarduzzi; Roser Morante; Judith Pollmann

The Kronieken Corpus: an Annotated Collection of Dutch/Flemish Chronicles from 1500–1850

Theo Dekker
, Erika Kuijpers
, Alie Lassche
, Carolina Lenarduzzi
, Roser Morante
, Judith Pollmann

Research output: Chapter in Book / Report / Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

Abstract

In this paper we present the Kronieken Corpus, a new digital collection of 204 local chronicles, containing almost 24 million words, written in Dutch/Flemish between 1500 and 1850. About half of these texts had not been published before. The manuscripts were photographed in 39 archives and libraries in The Netherlands and Belgium and subsequently transcribed and manually annotated by volunteers. The annotations include named entities and dates, as well as source mentions and attributions. The result is a unique, enriched historical corpus of original hand-written, non-canonical and non-fictional text by lay people from the early modern period.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 8th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature (LaTeCH-CLfL 2024)
Editors	Yuri Bizzoni, Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Anna Kazantseva, Stan Szpakowicz
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages	243-252
Number of pages	11
ISBN (Electronic)	9798891760691
Publication status	Published - 2024
Event	8th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature, LaTeCH-CLfL 2024 - St. Julian's, Malta Duration: 22 Mar 2024 → …

Conference

Conference	8th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature, LaTeCH-CLfL 2024
Country/Territory	Malta
City	St. Julian's
Period	22/03/24 → …

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 Association for Computational Linguistics.

Funding

Research for this paper was funded through the NWO VC project ‘Chronicling Novelty. New knowledge in the Netherlands, 1500-1850’ directed by Judith Pollmann (Leiden University and Erika Kuijpers (VU Amsteram) and by the Network Institute of the VU Amsterdam, via the project “The Cycle of News in Chronicles from Eighteenth Century Holland: A Stylometric Approach”.

Funders	Funder number
Leiden University and Erika Kuijpers
Network Institute of the VU Amsterdam
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek	1500-1850

Access to Document

https://aclanthology.org/2024.latechclfl-1.24/Licence: CC BY

Persistent URL (handle)

Persistent link

Cite this

Dekker, T., Kuijpers, E., Lassche, A., Lenarduzzi, C., Morante, R., & Pollmann, J. (2024). The Kronieken Corpus: an Annotated Collection of Dutch/Flemish Chronicles from 1500–1850. In Y. Bizzoni, S. Degaetano-Ortlieb, A. Kazantseva, & S. Szpakowicz (Eds.), Proceedings of the 8th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature (LaTeCH-CLfL 2024) (pp. 243-252). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). https://aclanthology.org/2024.latechclfl-1.24/

Dekker, Theo ; Kuijpers, Erika ; Lassche, Alie et al. / The Kronieken Corpus : an Annotated Collection of Dutch/Flemish Chronicles from 1500–1850. Proceedings of the 8th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature (LaTeCH-CLfL 2024). editor / Yuri Bizzoni ; Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb ; Anna Kazantseva ; Stan Szpakowicz. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2024. pp. 243-252

@inproceedings{bed32361ac8a4391bc2b5ae7e5c7ae6b,

title = "The Kronieken Corpus: an Annotated Collection of Dutch/Flemish Chronicles from 1500–1850",

abstract = "In this paper we present the Kronieken Corpus, a new digital collection of 204 local chronicles, containing almost 24 million words, written in Dutch/Flemish between 1500 and 1850. About half of these texts had not been published before. The manuscripts were photographed in 39 archives and libraries in The Netherlands and Belgium and subsequently transcribed and manually annotated by volunteers. The annotations include named entities and dates, as well as source mentions and attributions. The result is a unique, enriched historical corpus of original hand-written, non-canonical and non-fictional text by lay people from the early modern period.",

author = "Theo Dekker and Erika Kuijpers and Alie Lassche and Carolina Lenarduzzi and Roser Morante and Judith Pollmann",

note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2024 Association for Computational Linguistics.; 8th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature, LaTeCH-CLfL 2024 ; Conference date: 22-03-2024",

year = "2024",

language = "English",

pages = "243--252",

editor = "Yuri Bizzoni and Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb and Anna Kazantseva and Stan Szpakowicz",

booktitle = "Proceedings of the 8th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature (LaTeCH-CLfL 2024)",

publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)",

address = "United States",

}

Dekker, T, Kuijpers, E, Lassche, A, Lenarduzzi, C, Morante, R & Pollmann, J 2024, The Kronieken Corpus: an Annotated Collection of Dutch/Flemish Chronicles from 1500–1850. in Y Bizzoni, S Degaetano-Ortlieb, A Kazantseva & S Szpakowicz (eds), Proceedings of the 8th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature (LaTeCH-CLfL 2024). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pp. 243-252, 8th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature, LaTeCH-CLfL 2024, St. Julian's, Malta, 22/03/24. <https://aclanthology.org/2024.latechclfl-1.24/>

The Kronieken Corpus: an Annotated Collection of Dutch/Flemish Chronicles from 1500–1850. / Dekker, Theo; Kuijpers, Erika; Lassche, Alie et al.
Proceedings of the 8th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature (LaTeCH-CLfL 2024). ed. / Yuri Bizzoni; Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb; Anna Kazantseva; Stan Szpakowicz. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2024. p. 243-252.

Research output: Chapter in Book / Report / Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

TY - GEN

T1 - The Kronieken Corpus

T2 - 8th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature, LaTeCH-CLfL 2024

AU - Dekker, Theo

AU - Kuijpers, Erika

AU - Lassche, Alie

AU - Lenarduzzi, Carolina

AU - Morante, Roser

AU - Pollmann, Judith

PY - 2024

Y1 - 2024

N2 - In this paper we present the Kronieken Corpus, a new digital collection of 204 local chronicles, containing almost 24 million words, written in Dutch/Flemish between 1500 and 1850. About half of these texts had not been published before. The manuscripts were photographed in 39 archives and libraries in The Netherlands and Belgium and subsequently transcribed and manually annotated by volunteers. The annotations include named entities and dates, as well as source mentions and attributions. The result is a unique, enriched historical corpus of original hand-written, non-canonical and non-fictional text by lay people from the early modern period.

AB - In this paper we present the Kronieken Corpus, a new digital collection of 204 local chronicles, containing almost 24 million words, written in Dutch/Flemish between 1500 and 1850. About half of these texts had not been published before. The manuscripts were photographed in 39 archives and libraries in The Netherlands and Belgium and subsequently transcribed and manually annotated by volunteers. The annotations include named entities and dates, as well as source mentions and attributions. The result is a unique, enriched historical corpus of original hand-written, non-canonical and non-fictional text by lay people from the early modern period.

UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85189749823

UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85189749823#tab=citedBy

UR - https://hdl.handle.net/1887/3731999

M3 - Conference contribution

AN - SCOPUS:85189749823

SP - 243

EP - 252

BT - Proceedings of the 8th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature (LaTeCH-CLfL 2024)

A2 - Bizzoni, Yuri

A2 - Degaetano-Ortlieb, Stefania

A2 - Kazantseva, Anna

A2 - Szpakowicz, Stan

PB - Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

Y2 - 22 March 2024

ER -

Dekker T, Kuijpers E, Lassche A, Lenarduzzi C, Morante R, Pollmann J. The Kronieken Corpus: an Annotated Collection of Dutch/Flemish Chronicles from 1500–1850. In Bizzoni Y, Degaetano-Ortlieb S, Kazantseva A, Szpakowicz S, editors, Proceedings of the 8th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature (LaTeCH-CLfL 2024). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). 2024. p. 243-252 Epub 2024 Mar.

The Kronieken Corpus: an Annotated Collection of Dutch/Flemish Chronicles from 1500–1850

Abstract

Conference

Bibliographical note

Funding

Access to Document

Persistent URL (handle)

Other files and links

Fingerprint

Chronicling Novelty. New knowledge in the Netherlands, 1500-1850.

Profiling local chroniclers in the early modern Low Countries

Chroniclingnovelty/chronicles-datasets: kronieken dataset

Cite this

The Kronieken Corpus: an Annotated Collection of Dutch/Flemish Chronicles from 1500–1850

Abstract

Conference

Bibliographical note

Funding

Access to Document

Persistent URL (handle)

Other files and links

Fingerprint

Projects

Chronicling Novelty. New knowledge in the Netherlands, 1500-1850.

Research output

Profiling local chroniclers in the early modern Low Countries

Datasets

Chroniclingnovelty/chronicles-datasets: kronieken dataset

Cite this