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Volces of formerly enslaved: A new text corpus of narratives by formerly enslaved persons.
| Τίτλος: | Volces of formerly enslaved: A new text corpus of narratives by formerly enslaved persons. |
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| Συγγραφείς: | Elmerot I; Department of Swedish, Multilingualism, Language Technology, University of Gothenburg, Box 100, SE-405 30, Gothenburg, Sweden. irene.elmerot@gu.se., Olsson LJ; Department of Swedish, Multilingualism, Language Technology, University of Gothenburg, Box 100, SE-405 30, Gothenburg, Sweden., Rönnbäck K; Department of Economy and Society, University of Gothenburg, Box 100, SE-405 30, Gothenburg, Sweden. |
| Πηγή: | Scientific data [Sci Data] 2026 Apr 30; Vol. 13 (1). Date of Electronic Publication: 2026 Apr 30. |
| Τύπος έκδοσης: | Journal Article; Dataset; Historical Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
| Στοιχεία περιοδικού: | Publisher: Nature Publishing Group Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 101640192 Publication Model: Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 2052-4463 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 20524463 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Sci Data Subsets: MEDLINE |
| Imprint Name(s): | Original Publication: London : Nature Publishing Group, 2014- |
| Ιατρικοί όροι (MeSH): | Enslavement*/history , Narration* , Information Storage and Retrieval*, Black or African American ; Humans ; History, 20th Century ; History, 18th Century ; Datasets as Topic ; Caribbean Region ; White ; Interviews as Topic ; Autobiographies as Topic |
| Περίληψη: | These data consist of newly OCRed and annotated narratives, both autobiographical texts written by, and interviews with, formerly enslaved persons of African descent in the United States of America and the Caribbean, including extensive time-related and geographical metadata. The texts authored by these individuals span from the years 1795 to approximately 1900, while the interviews were conducted in the 1930s. The former are written in standardised English from that time, whereas the latter often are written down in mediated, vernacular form, causing issues in lemmatisation and part-of-speech tagging. The aim is to create openly accessible corpora that can be utilised for the purpose of researching how these formerly enslaved persons described their own lives. (© 2026. The Author(s).) |
| Competing Interests: | Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests. |
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| Grant Information: | 2025-01228 Vetenskapsrådet (Swedish Research Council); F25-0072 Helge Ax:son Johnsons Stiftelse (Helge Ax:son Johnsons Foundation); H24-0275 Åke Wiberg Stiftelse (Åke Wiberg Foundation) |
| Entry Date(s): | Date Created: 20260430 Date Completed: 20260521 Latest Revision: 20260521 |
| Update Code: | 20260522 |
| PubMed Central ID: | PMC13133344 |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41597-026-07340-x |
| PMID: | 42062316 |
| Βάση Δεδομένων: | MEDLINE |
| ISSN: | 2052-4463 |
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| DOI: | 10.1038/s41597-026-07340-x |