The Anselm Corpus: Methods and Perspectives of a Parallel Aligned Corpus

Abstract

This paper presents ongoing work in the Anselm project at Ruhr-University Bochum, which deals with a parallel corpus of historical language data. We first present our corpus, which consists of about 50 versions of the medieval text Interrogatio Sancti Anselmi de Passione Domini ('Questions by Saint Anselm about the Lord's Passion'), written in different dialects from Early New High German, Middle Low German, and Middle Dutch. The versions were transcribed in a diplomatic way, and are currently being normalized and annotated with lemma and part of speech. In addition, the versions are being aligned at different levels of granularity (paragraph, sentence, phrase, word). We describe two use cases that profit from the annotations: one use case from historical lexical semantics, the other from historical syntax. We finally sketch further application scenarios from the historico-cultural domain of Digital Humanities.

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