About TRACE

TRACE is a collaboration between the Linguistic Data Consortium (University of Pennsylvania) and the EarlyPrint Lab (Washington University in St. Louis; Washington & Jefferson College) to extend the annotation of the EEBO-TCP corpus to include syntactic structure, named entities, and word senses.

With funding from the National Science Foundation, TRACE will annotate 1.5 billion words of historical English with: (1) POS tags, (2) syntactic structure, (3) lemmas and word senses, and (4) coreference/entity linking to a knowledge base. Texts will be drawn from EarlyPrint’s collection of approximately 60,000 books spanning 1475 to 1700.

We will also provide users with tools for interacting with these resources, consisting of: (1) an updated version of Corpus Search, a tool for identifying and counting lexical and syntactic terms, (2) programming tools for extracting semantic triples for use in network analysis, in keeping with our work on the EarlyPrint + Python notebooks. These annotations will be both released by LDC and integrated into the EarlyPrint website.

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People

Seth Kulick, co-PI, University of Pennsylvania
Neville Ryant, co-PI, University of Pennsylvania
Joseph Loewenstein, co-PI, Washington University in St. Louis
Ann Bies, University of Pennsylvania
Douglas Knox, Washington University in St. Louis
John Ladd, Washington & Jefferson College