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Beowulf on Scantron
Digitizing the Old English Corpus "In general, optically scanned systems are labor-efficient but introduce a proportion of machine errors, while…
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Help Manual
A help manual for the Dictionary of Old English and the Dictionary of Old English Corpus (July 2014).
Dictionary of Old English & Dictionary of Old English Corpus for Historians
How to use the DOE and the Corpus to mine primary texts and research history, law, medicine--even without a background in Old English
Dictionary of Old English Corpus: Searching for Phrases and Word Combinations
How to search the DOE Corpus for multiple words: phrases, word combinations, expressions. Includes regular expression and proximity searches.