The Corpus of Historical English Law Reports (CHELAR) is a specialised corpus consisting of law reports and judicial decisions dating from the period 1535–1999. It enables researchers to investigate a legal text type which is not included in any other diachronic corpus existing to date – apart from ARCHER 3.2, also compiled by the VLCG team as part of their work for the ARCHER Consortium.
CHELAR is available as plain text and with POS annotation (CLAWS-7; LancasterUniversity). It is currently also being annotated following the TEI XML guidelines.
For more information and conditions of access, visit the entry for CHELAR in CoRD (Corpus Resource Database at VARIENG, Helsinki).
Congratulations to the compilers and the whole research group!!
This is certainly great news! Congratulations to all the compilers!
Congrats to the whole team!!