[Histling-l] Reference Corpus of Early New High German (ReF)

[Stefanie Dipper]

We are happy to announce the public release of the Reference Corpus of
Early New High German (ReF), which is available from the following
website:

    https://www.linguistics.rub.de/ref/

The Reference Corpus of Early New High German (1350–1650) consists of
approx. 3.8 million tokens, providing a careful selection of Early New
High German texts from 1350 to 1650. The corpus was compiled in the
context of a series of projects at the Universities of Bonn, Bochum,
Halle and Potsdam, beginning in the 1970s.

The corpus is composed of three sub-corpora: ReF.RUB, ReF.MLU,
ReF.UP. For detailed documentation, see
https://www.linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/ref.

The corpus can be accessed via ANNIS under the following URL:

     https://annis.linguistics.rub.de/ref/

ReF.RUB and ReF.MLU can be downloaded in Cora-XML format (see
https://www.linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/comphist/resources/cora);
ReF.UP is provided in TIGER-XML format (see
https://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/documents/ressourcen/werkzeuge/tigersearch/doc/html/TigerXML.html),
all under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license (CC
BY-SA 4.0).