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############ Daglegt mál and Íslenskt mál [HJH] ############
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The texts by Helgi J. Halldórsson were originally broadcast 
on the radio programs Daglegt mál and Íslenskt mál from 1973 
to 1986.

THE RADIO SHOW
Helgi J. Halldórsson’s series Daglegt mál was broadcast in 
four cycles:

    First cycle: 26.04.1973 – 26.09.1974 (142 episodes)
    Second cycle: 02.06.1975 – 21.11.1975 (50 episodes)
    Third cycle: 11.06.1976 – 28.07.1977 (113 episodes)
    Fourth cycle: 04.05.1981 – 14.01.1982 (72 episodes)

In total, there were 377 episodes, each containing over 700 
words.

Additionally, Helgi presented 24 episodes under the title 
Íslenskt mál from 04.09.1985 to 26.02.1986. (Sigrún Helgadóttir 
wrote and performed three of these episodes.)

Thus, the total number of episodes amounts to 401.

THE TEXTS
The original scripts were stored in folders and typed on a 
manual typewriter. In the spring of 2020, Sigrún Helgadóttir 
digitized the series using equipment at the Árni Magnússon 
Institute. The process involved:

    Scanning the original pages using a specialized scanner
    Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to extract text
    Conversion into digital text using ABBYY FineReader

For each episode, a PDF file containing an image of the 
original text and a corresponding digitally processed text 
document was created. Guðný Helgadóttir received the text 
documents, which were processed using the application Skrambi 
(http://skrambi.arnastofnun.is/), developed by Jón Friðrik 
Daðason. The documents were then corrected with Skrambi and 
compared against the original text. Guðný Helgadóttir carried 
out this work during the summer and autumn of 2020.
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Since Helgi used a typewriter, the only form of text emphasis 
he employed was underlining. However, no consistent pattern 
was observed in its use. While underlining was likely intended 
for emphasis, it does not necessarily indicate a focus on 
specific words. For this reason, underlining has not been 
included in the modified text files.

CORRECTIONS

Helgi’s original documents contain handwritten corrections, 
which were followed during the digitization process. The 
scanning system sometimes had difficulty processing heavily 
annotated pages, so some content had to be manually 
transcribed.

SPELLING

Helgi adhered to the official spelling conventions of his 
time and did not use the letter ‘z’, which was no longer 
in standard usage. However, some parts of the texts discuss 
this character. Any clear spelling or typographical errors 
have been corrected.

THIS PUBLICATION

The texts are published in TEI format and have been tokenized, 
POS-tagged, and lemmatized. The root document 
(HJH-22.02.ana.xml) contains key corpus information and 
references to the individual episode files.

    Tokenization: Performed using Tokenizer from Miðeind (https://github.com/mideind/Tokenizer)
    POS Tagging: Done with the grammatical tagger ABLTagger (http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12537/98)
    Lemmatization: Conducted using Nefnir (https://github.com/jonfd/Nefnir)