Evaluation Set for Historical Text Reuse Detection (HTRD) in 15th-Century German Prose Texts

The evaluation set provides a pair of 15th-century German prose texts in which instances of assumed text reuse (TR) have been annotated, categorised and linked using the TEI standard. The annotated texts are intended to serve as evaluation set for computational methods and tools specialising on Historical Text Reuse Detection (HTRD). The texts featured in the evaluation set are (1) "Der Doernenkrantz van Collen", a late medieval lay didactic treatise on the estates of society, and (2) "Die Cronica van der hilliger Stat Coellen", one of the most important medieval chronicles of the city of Cologne. Both texts are written in Ripuarian, a west middle German dialect of the late middle ages and early modern period, and exhibit orthographic variance as well as transcription errors due to automatic Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR), which makes them challenging for HTRD.