Dictionary of Old English Corpus in Electronic Form (DOEC)

Abstract

More information and online corpus search (for subscribing institutions) are available from the Dictionary of Old English website at the University of Toronto. The Dictionary of Old English Corpus is a complete record of surviving Old English except for some variant manuscripts of individual texts. There are 3037 texts in the corpus, represented in two formats on the CD-ROM: Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) and Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML). R.L. Venezky, “Unseen Users, Unknown Systems: Computer Design for a Scholar’s Dictionary”, Proceedings of the Third Annual Conference of the UW Centre for the New Oxford English Dictionary: The Uses of Large Text Databases (Waterloo, ON 1987), 113-21. Antonette diPaolo Healey, “The Corpus of the Dictionary of Old English: Its Delimitation, Compilation, and Application”, Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Conference of the UW Centre for the New Oxford English Dictionary: Dictionaries in the Electronic Age, reprtd. ed. (Oxford 1990), 113-24.