mschonhardt/georges-1913-normalization

Normalized Georges 1913

Description

This dataset was created as part of the Burchard's Dekret Digital project (www.burchards-dekret-digital.de), funded by the Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz.

It is based on 55,000 lemmata from Karl Georges, Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, Hannover 1913 (Georges 1913) and was developed to train models for normalization tasks in the context of medieval Latin.

The dataset consists of approximately 5 million word pairs of orthographic variants alongside their normalized forms. These word pairs were generated by introducing systematic orthographic transformations, such as:

• v ↔ u substitutions: Interchanging v and u.
• ii → ij / ii → ji substitutions: Modifying digraphs (ii) into alternative medieval forms (ij, ji).
• ae → ę replacements: Replacing ae with ę.
• ti → ci substitutions: Transforming ti into ci.
• mn → mpn modifications: Expanding mn to mpn.
• n → m changes: Replacing n with m.
• y → i replacements: Substituting y with i.

These transformations were designed to provide a dataset for text normalization of medieval Latin manuscript transcriptions.

Dataset Structure

The dataset is formatted as tab-separated pairs where each line contains an orthographic variant followed by its normalized form, e.g.:

Ortographical variant	normalized form
circumcalcabicis	circumcalcabitis
peruincaturi	pervincaturi
tepidaremtur	tepidarentur
exmovemdis	exmovendis
comvomavisset	convomavisset
permeiemdis	permeiendis
permeditacissime	permeditatissime
conspersu	conspersu
pręviridancissimę	praeviridantissimae
relaxavisses	relaxavisses
edentaveratis	edentaveratis
amhelioris	anhelioris
remediatae	remediatae
discruciavero	discruciavero
imterplicavimus	interplicavimus
peraequata	peraequata
ignicomantissimorum	ignicomantissimorum
pręfvltvro	praefulturo

Usecases

This dataset can be used for:

• Training normalization models for medieval Latin texts.
• Developing text restoration or correction tools for historical documents.
• Applying normalization based on Georges 1913.

Known limitations

The dataset has not been subjected to data augmentation and may contain substantial bias, particularly against irregular forms, such as Greek loanwords like "presbyter."

Data Splits

The dataset consists of a single shuffled split of 5 million word pairs. Users can create their own train/validation/test splits depending on their use case.

Acknowledgments

Dataset was created by Michael Schonhardt (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2750-1900) for the project Burchards Dekret Digital.

Creation was made possible thanks to the lemmata from Georges 1913, kindly provided via www.zeno.org by 'Henricus - Edition Deutsche Klassik GmbH'. Please consider using and supporting this valuable service.

License

CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.en)

Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite: Michael Schonhardt, Dataset: Normalized Georges 1913, https://huggingface.co/datasets/mschonhardt/georges-1913-normalization, Doi: 10.5281/zenodo.14191142 .