A new 474-million-word corpus makes two centuries of Danish and Norwegian newspapers searchable for the first time using neural text recognition.
A World in Print: Introducing a Danish-Norwegian corpus of historical newspapers
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This Data Descriptor introduces the dataset Enevaeldens Nyheder Online (News during Absolutism Online). The Enevaeldens Nyheder Online (ENO) dataset provides a reconstruction of the contents of major newspapers in Denmark and Norway during the period of Absolutism (1660-1849). The dataset contains approx. 474 million words, created using neural networks designed to process digitised microfilm versions of Danish newspapers as well as a smaller selection of Norwegian publications that were all hitherto illegible for computers. The contributions details this process and its results, including a way to derive standalone texts from the editions, and the accompanying BERT-model trained on a beta-version of the dataset.
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A World in Print: Introducing a Danish-Norwegian corpus of historical newspapers
A new 474-million-word corpus makes two centuries of Danish and Norwegian newspapers searchable for the first time using neural text recognition.