mpilhlt/salamanca-abbr

Salamanca Abbreviation and Hyphenation Dataset

This is a dataset created from manually edited and curated digital edition texts of the so-called School of Salamanca, a group of 16th- and 17th-century theologians and jurists. The digital editions can be studied at the School of Salamanca Website, together with a dictionary of the political-juridical language these authors were using and contributing to shape.

The corpus contains printed texts of various genres (academic summae, in some cases an author's collected works, as well as pragmatic booklets for merchants or confessors) in Latin and Spanish, but all the texts are concerned with law, politics, and ethics.

The pipeline extracting the dataset from the TEI XML sources as they have been prepared in the project is documented in the SvSal-PoCo repository at GitHub, more specifically in the data/prepare_data subfolder.

The creation of the dataset happened in the course of an experiment aiming to establish machine learning tools to aid the project's editors in their work, i.e. detecting cases where a word has been broken to straddle two lines without this being indicated by a hyphenation dash, and expanding abbreviations (also at times straddling two or even three lines - yes, these exist). The experiment's pipeline code and tools can be accessed at the GitHub repository, too.