MarineLives/Line-Insertions

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Small dataset of line sections extracted from English High Court of Admiralty deposition volume HCA 13/58 (covers 1642-44)
Series of four lines of consecutive text extracted from a page
Grouped in paris of four lines, with first group the raw machine transcribed text and the second group the corrected text
Raw text group of four lines
* Line two or three of each group of four lines contains an insertion mark '⁁'
* Line above or below the insertion mark consists of the text which should be inserted
Corrected text group of four lines
* Reduced to three lines with text inserted at insertion mark
* In some cases additional text changes, correcting HRT errors and expanding English and Latin abbreviations and contractions, to ensure accurate GroudTruth

Structured as follows:

**EXAMPLE FOURTEEN: RAW TEXT**
**EXAMPLE FOURTEEN: CORRECTION**

WORKED EXAMPLE:

**EXAMPLE SIX: RAW TEXT**

the said parties and Benedicte Stafforde the Englishe master of
for that voyage
the Sta Cara ⁁ and the said shippe was laden with bayes
Cloth and wynes and iron and pitch when shee came to Sta

**EXAMPLE SIX: CORRECTION**

the said parties and Benedicte Stafforde the Englishe master of
the Santa Clara for that voyage and the said shippe was laden with bayes
Cloth and wynes and iron and pitch when shee came to Santa