Buddhist Digital Resource Center

This paper presents PACTib, the PArsed Corpus of Tibetan. This new resource is unique in bringing together a large number of Tibetan texts (>5000) from the 11th century until the present day. The texts in this diachronic corpus are provided with metadata containing information on dates and patron-/authorship and linguistic annotation in the form of tokenisation, sentence segmentation, part-of-speech tags and syntactic phrase structure. With over 166 million tokens across 11 centuries and a variety of genres, PACTib will open up a wide range of research opportunities for historical and comparative linguistics and scholars in Tibetan Studies, which we illustrate with two short case studies. 'I have eaten the food' (Tournadre and Dorje, 2003, 165)