The Parsed Old and Middle Irish Corpus (POMIC) is a corpus of Irish texts spanning the years from c. 700 to c. 1100. The current beta-version of the corpus consists of 14 texts which have been POS-tagged and syntactically parsed. The corpus is, however, a work in progress and future additions are envisioned which will include texts written at the end of the Middle Irish period (up to around 1200) as well as very early legal material that may, in some cases, be dated to the 7th century.
The corpus files may be searched using the corpus query software CorpusSearch developed by Beth Randall. I include in the download list below a current .jar file in order to run CorpusSearch # java -classpath CS_2.003.04.jar csearch/CorpusSearch
Corpus Manual
The annotation scheme adopted for the corpus is described in the manual (found below in the download list). This manual was developed as an adaptation of the manual (Release 2, 2010) for the Penn Corpora of Historical English written by Beatrice Santorini. The manual for POMIC is at present incomplete, but this will be rectified in future updates. I have tried to follow the Penn manual as closely as possible, but I have deviated from the Penn manual in order to show how POMIC differs from the Penn corpora.
Downloads
In order to use the corpus you can download the following corpus text files (.psd) (encoded in Mac OS Roman, at present). As well as the current (incomplete) corpus manual (.pdf).
I would like to thank Beatrix Färber (UCC, History Dept.) and Dr Hugh Fogarty (formerly of UCD, editor of TLH) for allowing me to use some of the texts from the CELT and TLH databases respectively in order to create POS-tagged and syntactically parsed versions. I would also like to thank Professor Liam Breatnach of the School of Celtic Studies for guidance in various matters relating to the corpus.
This work was done while holding an O’Donovan Scholarship at the School of Celtic Studies in the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (2011–2014)
Citation
If using this corpus for research purposes, please cite it as:
Lash, Elliott. 2014. The Parsed Old and Middle Irish Corpus (POMIC). Version 0.1. https://www.dias.ie/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6586&Itemid=224&lang=en
Contact info
In order to improve the corpus, I welcome any email sent to the following address:
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The second research seminar of the week will be held tomorrow evening, Friday 24th January, 5pm, G-R04, 9 West Rd. Dr Daniel Watson @DIAS_Dublin@SCSLibrary will speak on 'The Six Ages of the World and Nostalgia for the Pagan Past in Early Irish Literature'. All welcome! Retweeted by
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The Parsed Old and Middle Irish Corpus (POMIC)
Introduction
The Parsed Old and Middle Irish Corpus (POMIC) is a corpus of Irish texts spanning the years from c. 700 to c. 1100. The current beta-version of the corpus consists of 14 texts which have been POS-tagged and syntactically parsed. The corpus is, however, a work in progress and future additions are envisioned which will include texts written at the end of the Middle Irish period (up to around 1200) as well as very early legal material that may, in some cases, be dated to the 7th century.
Tag-set and Parsing based on Penn Corpora
The tag-set and parsing annotation adopted for POMIC is intended to be broadly compatible with the Penn-group of corpora (see for instance the corpora of historical English data, the corpus of historical Icelandic data, the corpus of historical Portuguese data, the corpus of historical German data, and the corpus of historical Greek data, among some others).
CorpusSearch
The corpus files may be searched using the corpus query software CorpusSearch developed by Beth Randall. I include in the download list below a current .jar file in order to run CorpusSearch
# java -classpath CS_2.003.04.jar csearch/CorpusSearch
Corpus Manual
The annotation scheme adopted for the corpus is described in the manual (found below in the download list). This manual was developed as an adaptation of the manual (Release 2, 2010) for the Penn Corpora of Historical English written by Beatrice Santorini. The manual for POMIC is at present incomplete, but this will be rectified in future updates. I have tried to follow the Penn manual as closely as possible, but I have deviated from the Penn manual in order to show how POMIC differs from the Penn corpora.
Downloads
In order to use the corpus you can download the following corpus text files (.psd) (encoded in Mac OS Roman, at present). As well as the current (incomplete) corpus manual (.pdf).
Acknowledgements
I would like to thank Beatrix Färber (UCC, History Dept.) and Dr Hugh Fogarty (formerly of UCD, editor of TLH) for allowing me to use some of the texts from the CELT and TLH databases respectively in order to create POS-tagged and syntactically parsed versions. I would also like to thank Professor Liam Breatnach of the School of Celtic Studies for guidance in various matters relating to the corpus.
This work was done while holding an O’Donovan Scholarship at the School of Celtic Studies in the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (2011–2014)
Citation
If using this corpus for research purposes, please cite it as:
Lash, Elliott. 2014. The Parsed Old and Middle Irish Corpus (POMIC). Version 0.1. https://www.dias.ie/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6586&Itemid=224&lang=en
Contact info
In order to improve the corpus, I welcome any email sent to the following address:
Elliott Lash: eljlash@gmail.com
School of Celtic Studies
In 2020 we will show how the school carries out advanced research in many areas of the languages, literatures, societies and laws of the Celtic countries, with particular emphasis on Irish. Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
The School is dedicated to the study of Irish and the other Celtic languages, both written and spoken, throughout their history, as well as related areas of cultural, social and legal history. The school's theme for DIAS 2020 is "Exploring Worlds through Words" Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
As we mark 80 years of discovery, we will be taking a closer look at each of our constituent Schools. One of the first Schools founded in 1940 was the School of Celtic Studies. #DIASdiscovers #DIAS2020 #celticstudies Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
Today we launched DIAS 2020: marking 80 year of discovery with a number of themed events based on our primary disciplines. The programme to date is available on our events page and will be updated as the year goes on! More: dias.ie/dias2020/ #DIASdiscovers #DIAS2020 Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
Another busy start to another busy week! We were working with @DIAS_Dublin over the weekend to announce a programme to mark their 80th anniversary. Check out these launch pics by @SparkyScoops & read more here: dias.ie/2020/01/27/dia… #AlicePlaybook #DIASdiscovers #DIAS2020 Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
'A Brehon Lawyer's School in Sixteenth-Century Ireland' symposium takes place tomorrow @nuigalway. Hosted by the Centre for Antique, Medieval and Pre-Modern Studies & organised in conjunction with @SCSLibrary Speakers include Ruairí Ó hUiginn & Liam Breatnach #DIASdiscovers
The second research seminar of the week will be held tomorrow evening, Friday 24th January, 5pm, G-R04, 9 West Rd. Dr Daniel Watson @DIAS_Dublin @SCSLibrary will speak on 'The Six Ages of the World and Nostalgia for the Pagan Past in Early Irish Literature'. All welcome! Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
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Daniel Watson @SCSLibrary will be giving a research seminar entitled 'The Six Ages of the World and Nostalgia for the Pagan Past in Early Irish Literature' @Department_ASNC on 24 January 2020 #diasdiscovers twitter.com/Department_ASN… Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
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Interesting article gone live on ISOS "Online Access to the manuscripts in the Irish language in the Bibliothéque Rotale De Belgique" A talk given by Prof Pádraig Breatnach, marking the occasion of the digitisation isos.dias.ie/libraries/RLB/… @DIAS_ISOS @KU_Leuven @LeuvenIrelandEU Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library