Vicar – Access to Abbot TEI-A Conversion!

The brilliant folk at Nebraska and at Northwestern have teamed up to use Abbott and EEBO-MorphAdorner on a collection of TCP-ECCO texts. The Abbot tools is available here, Vicar – Access to Abbot TEI-A Conversion! Abbot tries to convert texts with different forms of markup into a common form. MorphAdorner does part of speech tagging. Together they have made available 2,000 ECCO texts that can be studied together.

I’m still not sure I understand the collaboration completely, but I know from experience that analyzing XML documents can be difficult if each document uses XML differently. Abbot tries to convert XML texts into a common form that preserves as much of the local tagging as possible.