Mercurius Treebank (copy @ INESS)

The Mercurius Treebank is a syntactically annotated corpus using a modification of the hybrid TIGER annotation scheme, which combines dependency and constituency information. The annotation scheme was accommodated to the needs of a historical corpus. So far, the MERCURIUS treebank comprises two early newspapers. i.e. the ‘Mercurius’ of 1667 and the ‘Annus Christi’ published in 1597, with a total of 170.000 tokens and 8.500 syntactically annotated sentences.

The present corpus has been compiled in 2003 to 2005 as a pilot to a much larger project aiming at the establishment of a syntactically annotated reference corpus for the period of Early New High German (1350-1650) as a whole
(http://www.uni-potsdam.de/guvdds/projekte/aktproj.html).

Annotation:
@nnotate has been used as a tool merging parsing and manual annotation: Suggestions provided by the parser may be rejected by the human annotator. The annotation has been carried out by using the double keying method. The present corpus has been compiled in 2003 to 2005 as a pilot to a much larger project aiming at the establishment of a syntactically annotated reference corpus for the period of Early New High German (1350-1650) as a whole (http://www.uni-potsdam.de/guvdds/projekte/aktproj.html).