New Possibilities for Exploring Early Latvian Texts: Switching to the NoSketchEngine

The variable writing system in early Latvian texts is a bottleneck for non-linguists wishing to explore SENIE, the Corpus of early written Latvian texts. The writing system also poses many challenges for linguists. The Unicode version of SENIE, launched on the NoSketchEngine platform (https://nosketch.korpuss.lv/#dashboard?corpname=senie_unicode) in 2022, offers significant new possibilities. After the process of normalization of historical spelling the access to the Corpus has become more user-friendly. Queries made in the Latvian National Corpus Collection (LNCC) (https://korpuss.lv/search) display search results in the early texts as well.