Latin-transliterated Ottoman Turkish Corpus (LOTUC)

This corpus includes 36 Ottoman Turkish poem books, Dîvân, written between 15th and 19th centuries. The books were transliterated by domain experts and publicly shared on the Internet. The books in the corpus were automatically structured via a rule-based approach and manually checked. Century Titles Poems Type Token 15 4 1,284 38,895 167,455 16 15 10,804 95,750 790,931 17 5 1,042 27,091 97,221 18 5 1,843 57,286 243,909 19 7 2,867 47,534 271,591 Total 36 17,840 188,441 1,571,107 Each Divân work and poem is accompanied by the following fields: Work-level (LOTUC_metadata.csv) file_name work_name (title of the Dîvân) pen_name (mahlas) real_name viaf century gender rank (e.g., “Sultan,” “Judiciary & Religious Office,” "High Bureaucracy/Military," “Scholars & Sufi Orders,” “Civil Bureaucracy,” and “Lay/Non-official”) Poem-level (LOTUC.json) poem_id title (if available) meter (in aruz notation) text (line-by-line Latin transliteration) The corpus can be utilised for diachronic studies, as Yılandiloğlu (forthcoming) demonstrated that poets partially adhered more accurately to the aruz meter over the centuries, reflected in rising conformity rates. Additionally, metadata can be leveraged to focus on a specific rank, such as sultan or gender. While this version has inconsistencies in terms of transliteration, the current work focuses on standardizing the corpus according to the IJMES transliteration system and expanding the corpus size.