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BLN600 (BLN600: A Parallel Corpus of Machine/Human Transcribed Nineteenth Century Newspaper Texts)

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A publicly available corpus of nineteenth-century newspaper text focused on crime in London, derived from the Gale British Library Newspapers corpus parts 1 and 2. The corpus comprises 600 newspaper excerpts and for each excerpt contains the original source image, the machine transcription of that image as found in the BLN and a gold standard manual transcription.

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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

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Variants archive 2025-07-28

  • BLN600

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