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.
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 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.
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
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Ogham stones are among Ireland's most remarkable national treasures, with inscriptions in the uniquely Irish Ogham alphabet. Our #OghamIn3D project, digitises and records as many as possible of the approx. 400 surviving Ogham stones. More at bit.ly/2Tz1sKn #DIASdiscovers Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
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Today's new addition to go live from National Library of Scotland @DIAS_ISOS @natlibscot MS 14966. Autograph notebook, 1943, of poems by Sorley MacLean (a Scottish Gaelic poet, described by the Scottish Poetry Library as "one of the major Scottish poets of the modern era") Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
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A ‘rare and special’ #manuscript Dr Elizabeth Boyle in the Sunday Independent today talking about the Book of Ballycummin & upcoming conference. Tickets available - ria.ie/little-remnant… Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
A medical manuscript from the mythical Island of Hy Brasil, so the story goes🤔Like the phantom island this manuscript is on view for a short time only - pop in today for a look! bit.ly/1nSotqX #ManuscriptMonday Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
Very happy that @Real_Deniscasey & I have been successful in our application for a SPUR project @MaynoothUni - we shall be recruiting 2 undergraduates to work as paid researchers on 6-week summer project to produce an index to the Annals of Ulster @EarlyIrishMU! Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
Today's new addition to go live from National Library of Scotland @DIAS_ISOS @natlibscot MS 14881, containing poetry of Allan Stewart of Innerhadden. f. 32.. Song headed "Luineagh le Ian Mc Mhurcha' – chaidh air Sal' do' America bho' Chintail' 1776"isos.dias.ie/libraries/NLS/… #ISOS Retweeted by DIAS_SCS Library
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