European Literary Text Collection (ELTeC)

The European Literary Text Collection (ELTeC) is a multilingual collection of corpora of literary texts that are comparable in nature, scope and quality across several European languages. Its availability is an essential condition for the creation, evaluation and use of multilingual tools and methods of analysis for literary texts. Novels have been chosen among major literary genres for availability and size. Chronological limits are due to constraints related to copyright and availability of quality full texts. – This release contains 14 collections of at least 50 novels, 8 of which have reached 100 novels, and a total of over 1200 novels. Collections in this release include: Czech, German, English, French, Hungarian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovenian, Spanish, Serbian, Swedish and Ukrainian. Note that this is an umbrella release, referencing the collections included in the release, but not containing the actual files. – ELTeC is one of the key outcomes of the COST Action ‘Distant Reading for European Literary History’ (CA16204) that ran from 2017 to 2022.