The BDCamões Collection of Portuguese Literary Documents: a Research Resource for Digital Humanities and Language Technology

Sara Grilo, Márcia Bolrinha, João Silva, Rui Vaz, António Branco

Abstract
This paper presents the BDCamões Collection of Portuguese Literary Documents, a new corpus of literary texts written in Portuguese that in its inaugural version includes close to 4 million words from over 200 complete documents from 83 authors in 14 genres, covering a time span from the 16th to the 21st century, and adhering to different orthographic conventions. Many of the texts in the corpus have also been automatically parsed with state-of-the-art language processing tools, forming the BDCamões Treebank subcorpus. This set of characteristics makes of BDCamões an invaluable resource for research in language technology (e.g. authorship detection, genre classification, etc.) and in language science and digital humanities (e.g. comparative literature, diachronic linguistics, etc.).
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2020.lrec-1.106
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Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
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May
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2020
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Marseille, France
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European Language Resources Association
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849–854
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English
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Sara Grilo, Márcia Bolrinha, João Silva, Rui Vaz, and António Branco. 2020. The BDCamões Collection of Portuguese Literary Documents: a Research Resource for Digital Humanities and Language Technology. In Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 849–854, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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