Dutch Historical Spelling Normalization for Parsing and Coreference Resolution

Non-canonical language can be handled in an NLP pipeline using normalization of the input (e.g., MoNoise; van der Goot & van Noord, CLINjournal 2017) or domain adaptation of the pipeline (e.g., Hupkes & Bod, LREC 2016); we focus on the former. MoNoise shows that normalization is effective for social media language. We consider a different domain: Dutch literature from Project Gutenberg. We work with 9 fragments that make up the OpenBoek corpus (van den Berg et al., CLIN 2021). The fragments consist of 10,000+ tokens from texts first published 1860-1920, both translated and originally D... Mehr ...