“Corpus of the Four Poets”: the digital dimension of the national heritage. Project assumptions

Abstract

This paper presents the preliminary assumptions of the “Corpus of the Four Poets” project, carried out in cooperation between Polish philologists (IBL PAN, UKSW) and IT specialists (CLARIN-PL, Wrocław University of Technology). The aim of the project is to create a digital corpus containing all Polish-language texts by the authors of the so-called “Great Romanticism”: Adam Mickiewicz, Juliusz Słowacki, Zygmunt Krasiński, and Cyprian Norwid, as well as to develop IT tools integrated with the corpus. The final result will be an online open access database with software. The texts for the corpus have been selected from the print sources that are well-known to readers, which provides the most complete and accurate form of the texts and a relative completeness of the lexical base. The set of metadata and annotations developed in the subsequent stages of the project will enable retrieval of the data on the language of individual authors and their objectivised comparison. Keywords: Zygmunt Krasiński– Adam Mickiewicz – Cyprian Norwid – Juliusz Słowacki – poet–prophet – corpus – vocabulary – idiolect.