@inproceedings{steingrimsson-etal-2025-mc,
    title = "{MC-19:} A Corpus of 19th Century {Icelandic} Texts",
    author = "Steingr{\'i}msson, Stein{\th}{\'o}r  and
      Sigur{\dh}sson, Einar Freyr  and
      Jasonarson, Atli",
    editor = "Johansson, Richard  and
      Stymne, Sara",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Joint 25th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics and 11th Baltic Conference on Human Language Technologies (NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025)",
    month = mar,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Tallinn, Estonia",
    publisher = "University of Tartu Library",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/2025.nodalida-1.68/",
    pages = "680--687",
    ISBN = "978-9908-53-109-0",
    abstract = "We present MC-19, a new Icelandic historical corpus containing texts from the period 1800-1920. We describe approaches for enhancing a corpus of historical texts, by preparing the texts so that they can be processed using state-of-the-art NLP tools. We train encoder-decoder models to reduce the number of OCR errors while leaving other orthographical variation be. We generate a separate modern spelling layer by normalizing the spelling to comply with modern spelling rules, using a statistical modernization ruleset as well as a dictionary of the most common words. This allows for the texts to be PoS-tagged and lemmatized using available tools, facilitating usage of the corpus for researchers and language technologists. The published version of the corpus contains over 270 million tokens."
}