As of April 2023, releases of the ISWOC Treebank have moved to https://github.com/syntacticus/syntacticus-treebank-data.

The ISWOC Treebank

The ISWOC Treebank is a dependency treebank with morphosyntactic and information-structure annotation. It includes texts in several older Indo-European languages and is freely available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License.

Please cite as

Bech, Kristin and Kristine Eide. 2014. The ISWOC corpus. Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages, University of Oslo. http://iswoc.github.com.

Releases of the ISWOC Treebank are hosted on Github.

Contents

The following texts are included in this release of the treebank:

Text	Language	Filename	Size
Ælfric's Lives of Saints	Old English	æls	3137 tokens
Apollonius of Tyre	Old English	apt	5541 tokens
Anglo-Saxon Chronicles	Old English	chrona	5939 tokens
Orosius	Old English	or	1728 tokens
West-Saxon Gospels	Old English	wscp	13061 tokens
La Vie Saint Eustace	Old French	eustace	2340 tokens
Crónica Geral de Espanha 2-12	Portuguese	cge1	12074 tokens
Crónica Geral de Espanha 155-167	Portuguese	cge2	10547 tokens
Décadas Livro 5, VIII, 9-14	Portuguese	coutdec-v-8	13794 tokens
Crónica de Alfonso XI	Spanish	alfonso-xi	7942 tokens
Crónica de España	Spanish	ce	4627 tokens
El Conde Lucanor	Spanish	cdeluc	17551 tokens
Estoria de Espanna I	Spanish	ee1	9488 tokens
General Estoria parte IV Daniel	Spanish	ge4	9233 tokens
Libro delos claros varones	Spanish	varones	5820 tokens

(The 'size' column in the table above shows the number of annotated tokens in a text. The number of tokens will be slightly larger than the number of words in the original printed edition as some words have been split into multiple tokens and some tokens have been inserted during annotation.)

Please see the XML files for detailed metadata and a full list of contributors.

Data formats

The texts are available on two formats:

1. PROIEL XML: These files are the authoritative source files and the only ones that contain all available annotation. They contain the complete morphological, syntactic and information-structure annotation, as well as the complete text, including punctuation, section headers etc. The schema is defined in proiel.xsd.

2. CoNLL-X format