ARTFL Project: User Reports

The ARTFL Project makes every effort to provide accurate and effective access to the TLF and other databases we provide. However, we are aware of numerous problems which arise from the contents of the database and/or search and reporting engines developed at the ARTFL Project and the University of Chicago. While some of thes problems can be fixed in short order, others involve significant and expensive re-working of data files and search engine components which cannot be rapidly implemented because of the size of the database(s) and scale of our search engines. We are beginning to collect bug and problem reports from users which will publish here in order to To this end, we strongly encourage users who are having problems with ARTFL to draft bug reports, possible work arounds or other solutions, in HTML or ascii and e-mail them to mark@gide.uchicago.edu. We may append comments to these reports indicating why these problems may arise, what corrective steps might be taken, and how these changes might fit into future developments.

ARTFL Project User Bug and Problem Reports

ARTFL Project: Corpus Revision Project

The ARTFL Project has been working on a long-term corpus correction project. Funded by a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, we finished correcting and re-tagging about 55% of the main ARTFL database.

I will be posting exact specifications of the correction and re-tagging project and the material we have corrected to date. I hope that some of the problems identified in user bug and problem reports may be corrected as part of our Corpus Revision Project.


Mark Olsen, ARTFL, University of Chicago, mark@gide.uchicago.edu