LLCT1: Early Medieval Latin Charter Texts with Linguistic Annotation

Version 1 of the Late Latin Charter Treebank contains early medieval Latin documentary texts. The texts have morphological and syntactic annotation compatible with the Ancient Language Dependency Treebank format. It was created by Timo Korkiakangas at the University of Oslo and was scheduled to be replaced by version 2 in 2018.

Use Cases

• Train dependency parsers for historical Latin based on the syntactic annotation.
• Study morphological changes in medieval Latin based on the morphological tags.
• Analyze formulaic language in early medieval charters as mentioned in the description.
• Compare annotation schemes between the Prague style treebank format (PML) and other standards.

Strengths

• Provides linguistic annotation for early medieval Latin, a historically significant language stage.
• Uses a standardized annotation format (Ancient Language Dependency Treebank compatible).
• Documented in a peer-reviewed publication (Korkiakangas & Lassila, 2013).

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset was scheduled to be superseded by LLCT2 in 2018, suggesting it may be outdated.

Provenance

Source

University of Oslo

Collection Method

Linguistic annotation of early medieval Latin documentary texts.

Time Range

Early medieval period (specific dates unknown).