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Nunc profana tractemus. Detecting Code-Switching in a Large Corpus of 16th Century Letters

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2022
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Volk, M., Fischer, L., Scheurer, P., Schwitter, R., Ströbel, P., & Suter, B. (2022, June). Nunc profana tractemus. Detecting Code-Switching in a Large Corpus of 16th Century Letters. Proceedings of LREC-2022, Marseille. https://lrec2022.lrec-conf.org/en/

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This paper is based on a collection of 16th century letters from and to the Zurich reformer Heinrich Bullinger. Around 12,000 letters of this exchange have been preserved, out of which 3100 have been professionally edited, and another 5500 are available as provisional transcriptions. We have investigated code-switching in these 8600 letters, first on the sentence-level and then on the word-level. In this paper we give an overview of the corpus and its language mix (mostly Early New High German and Latin, but also French, Greek, Italia

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Proceedings of LREC-2022

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Marseille

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2022-06-21

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2022-06-26

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LREC

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language identification, historical languages, Latin, Early New High German

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English

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2022-06-29

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97 since deposited on 2022-06-29
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258 since deposited on 2022-06-29
Acq. date: 2025-11-12

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Volk, M., Fischer, L., Scheurer, P., Schwitter, R., Ströbel, P., & Suter, B. (2022, June). Nunc profana tractemus. Detecting Code-Switching in a Large Corpus of 16th Century Letters. Proceedings of LREC-2022, Marseille. https://lrec2022.lrec-conf.org/en/

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