Access/Citing
The Litkey Corpus (ISLRN 051-051-923-439-0) is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0).
If you use the corpus in your work, please cite the following paper:
Ronja Laarmann-Quante, Katrin Ortmann, Anna Ehlert, Simon Masloch, Doreen Scholz, Eva Belke, & Stefanie Dipper (2019a). The Litkey Corpus: A richly annotated longitudinal corpus of German texts written by primary school children. Behavior Research Methods. [bibtex] [Link to article]
The Litkey Corpus is available in the following formats :
| Format | Description | Preview | Sample | Download | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Litkey-XML | XML-based format; see Laarmann-Quante et al. (2016b) and Laarmann-Quante et al. (2019c) for documentation |  |
sample XML | [zip] (16MB) | |
| Litkey-Tab | table-based view of the tokens in the corpus and their annotations, see Laarmann-Quante et al. (2019a); a short description of the columns can be found here |  (not all columns shown) |
excerpt from the xlsx | [csv] (44MB) [xlsx] (67MB) | |
| Litkey-DB | table-based view of the types in the corpus and their annotations, see Laarmann-Quante et al. (2019a); a short description of the columns can be found here |  (not all columns shown) |
excerpt from the xlsx | [csv] (1.4MB) [xlsx] (2MB) | |
| Litkey-ANNIS | access to the Litkey Corpus via the corpus search tool ANNIS; see the online supplementary material of Laarmann-Quante et al. (2019a) for a tutorial |  |
Link | ||
| Litkey-csv | each text represented as a CSV file with aligned original and target tokens following the guidelines in Laarmann-Quante et al. (2017b) |  |
sample CSV | [zip] (1.3MB) | |
| Litkey-orig | each transcribed original text as plain text file following the transcription guidelines in Laarmann-Quante et al. (2017b) (linebreaks are preserved and whitespace represents original token boundaries) |  |
sample txt | [zip] (1MB) |
Picture Stories
The picture stories with which the texts were elicited can be downloaded here: [PDF]